DA: Suspects targeted Hispanics for robbery
In this file photo, Suffolk DA Tom Spota speaks to the media, March 29, 2010. Credit: Photo by Joseph D. Sullivan
Prosecutors are announcing the indictment of two suspects accused of targeting Hispanic victims for robbery.
A 30-count indictment was to be unsealed Tuesday in a Riverhead, courtroom. The suspects were not immediately identified.
Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota says the charges are the result of a four-month investigation.
He says the pair targeted Hispanics for robbery because they believed the victims carried a lot of cash. The victims were also targeted because they did not speak English and were perceived unlikely to report the robberies to police. A BB-gun was used in most of the holdups.
The charges come a day after Jeffrey Conroy was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime in the 2008 death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero.
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