Rash of robberies hits Hispanics in the city

Ten months after they were attacked, forced to the ground and robbed as they walked home from work in broad daylight, Moises and Carmen Lopez came into court yesterday to face one of their assailants.

Speaking through an interpreter, the Mexican couple told a judge the attack has left them scared to walk the streets of Annapolis alone. Now they make sure they always walk in pairs - though that didn't protect them from the trio of robbers in September.

Calling one of those robbers, 25-year-old Albert Sublet IV, a "dangerous predator," Circuit Court Judge Joseph P. Manck sentenced him to eight years in prison for robbery, plus...