10-Year Prison Sentence Ordered For Man Who Pulled 2 Robberies

Tampa FL

28 January, 2022

10:48 PM

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TAMPA, FL — A 32-year-old Tampa man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of armed robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a violent crime. U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Mizelle handed down the sentence to Giovanni Gort Friday. She also ordered him to pay $535 in restitution. Gort pleaded guilty Oct. 26. According to court records, in the early morning of Feb. 10, 2021, Gort entered the 7-Eleven convenience store on Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa, pulled out a gun, pointed it at the store clerk and said, "Give me everything you got. I be back to see you. If you say something, I'm going to come back and shoot you." The clerk took $435 from her cash register and gave it to Gort, who then fled the scene. The clerk immediately reported the robbery saying she "had never been so scared in her life." About 10 minutes later, Gort entered a 7-Eleven convenience store on Memorial Highway in Tampa and told the clerk, "Give me all your money, bro," before ordering the two store clerks behind the counter at gunpoint. The clerks gave Gort approximately $100 in a plastic bag. While they were collecting the money, the clerks saw Gort rack the slide of the gun. Keeping the employees at gunpoint while he backed out of the store, Gort fled the scene. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. See related story: Sheriff Seeks Man Who Pulled Off Back-To-Back Armed Robberies