REDWOOD CITY (BCN) — A South San Francisco man was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for committing three robberies in 2014 and 2015, including one when he was out on bail for the other two, prosecutors said today.
Giovanni Avalos, 21, had been out on bail for the robbery of a 7-Eleven store in March 2014 and a beating during a mugging in May 2014 when he robbed a victim waiting to get picked up for his prayer group, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
On March 20, 2014, Avalos robbed a clerk at gunpoint at a 7-Eleven on Mission Road in South San Francisco. The robbery was captured on surveillance footage, prosecutors said.
On May 13, he was with a group of accomplices who robbed and beat a victim in the 200 block of Armour Avenue, stealing the victim’s iPhone, debit card and $207 in cash.
Avalos was arrested and charged with those robberies. But while out on bail he committed the third robbery on April 5, 2015, in the 600 block of Linden Avenue.
He held at gunpoint a victim who said he was waiting to go to a prayer group at 2:50 a.m. Avalos took his wallet, containing cash and a bank card, prosecutors said.
In a plea agreement, Avalos pleaded no contest Wednesday to three counts of robbery in exchange for a sentence of four years in prison. He has 424 days credit toward his sentence for time served, prosecutors said. Avalos’ attorney, John Campion, declined to comment on the case today.