Hartford — A man who turned 18 less than two months ago has been sentenced to 16 months in prison on charges that he committed two armed street robberies in Enfield when he was a juvenile, court records show.

The victim of the first robbery said Kifayeh A. Betts, of Enfield, hit him over the head twice with a gun and beat him, while another suspect also pistol whipped and beat him, according to an affidavit by Enfield Police Officer Jacob Ryan.

When he asked for his things back, the victim said, Betts replied while pointing a gun at him, "These going to be your last words?," the officer reported.

In the second robbery, Betts pressed the barrel of a gun against a different victim's face and said, "I'm not playing with you. I'll really blow your head off," that victim said in a written statement contained in the court file.

Enfield Police Officer Eric Pongaro reported that the second victim "had an indent on his face where the gun was placed."

Betts received the 16-month sentence last week in state Superior Court in Hartford after pleading guilty in September to second-degree robbery in each incident.

He could have received up to two years in prison under his plea bargain, but Judge David P. Gold reduced the prison time after hearing arguments from Betts' lawyer, Meredith Olan, and prosecutor Michael Riley, records show.

Betts is expected to receive credit for the time he has spent in jail since his arrest in the second case in late October 2022. Even though second-degree robbery is a violent crime and, according to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, people convicted of it have to spend 85 percent of their sentences in custody, Betts will be eligible for parole within a month.

After he is released, he will be on probation for three years, facing up to five years and eight months of additional prison time if he violates release conditions.

Ryan reported that the first robbery occurred in a parking lot at the end of Tariff Street on March 28, 2022, when Betts was 16.

The second occurred in the victim's car, which was parked outside a Pease Street home, on Oct. 26, 2022, Pongaro reported. Betts had turned 17 by then.

Both cases would have started in juvenile court. But Betts was originally charged with first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon in both cases, and, under Connecticut law, that causes a case to be transferred automatically to adult court if the defendant is at least 15 years old.

Police documents on both cases identify other participants in the robberies whose names do not appear in online state judicial records, either under pending cases or convictions. In at least one of those cases, the second suspect was also a juvenile.

Betts was arrested in the first robbery case in August 2022, court records show. He would have been free on pretrial release when he committed the second robbery.

In the first case, the victim said he had gone to the Tariff Street area to sell two designer bags and a belt to the person who later joined with Betts in beating and robbing him, Ryan reported. The victim said he feared for his life but chased the suspects down Tariff Street, where one suspect ran into his home, according to the officer.

After arresting that male, police got a warrant and searched his Tariff Street home, where they found some of the victim's stolen property, two stolen guns and Betts, whom police identified as the second suspect with the help of the victim and Instagram.

Olan, Betts' lawyer, could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.