An armed robber received eight years in prison on Jan 9 for holding up two people in Pacific Beach and three others elsewhere.

Anthony Caleb Johnson, 22, was ordered to pay $40 to a 7-Eleven store he robbed, but restitution for four other victims will be determined at a later hearing in San Diego Superior Court, according to court records.

Judge Dwayne Moring agreed with Johnson, of Lakeside, to limit his term to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to five counts of robbery. He could have faced a maximum sentence of 41 years and four months without the agreement, said Deputy District Attorney Malak Behrouznami.

Johnson was given credit for spending 207 days in jail since his arrest. He remains in the South Bay Detention Facility until a prison bus arrives to transfer him. He was fined $3,350.

Johnson pulled up to two men on July 10 at 2:07 a.m. while they were waiting for an Uber ride in the 4500 block of Mission Boulevard in Pacific Beach. He stuck a gun out a car window, demanding money, which the men gave him, and he drove off, according to the prosecutor.

Johnson next drove to a 7-Eleven store on Clairemont Drive and then held up another 7-Eleven store on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard. At 3:11 a.m., Johnson robbed a clerk at a 7-Eleven store in El Cajon.

Behrouznami said the use of a gun by Johnson in the hold-ups was an aggravating factor that could have lengthened his sentence without the judge’s limit of eight years. Johnson hasn’t been to prison before.

San Diego Police arrested him on July 13 after investigators obtained Johnson’s vehicle license plate number and entered it into the automated license plate recognition system. It showed the vehicle was in the area of all the sites where the robberies took place that night.

Johnson pleaded guilty before having a preliminary hearing. No one was shot or injured in the robberies.