Teens targeted Hispanic men

Two Magnolia Springs teenagers — Joshua Wilson and Justin Smith, both 18 — remain in the Baldwin County Corrections Center, accused of committing a string of armed robberies involving Hispanic residents of south Baldwin County.

On Monday night and again Tuesday night, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Deputies received calls about gunpoint robberies of Hispanics in the Bon Secour area, said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery. In both cases, Hispanic men were approached by two white men — identified as Wilson and Smith by Tuesday’s victim — and were robbed of jewelry and cash at gunpoint.

The men targeted Hispanics, believing many of them are illegal, undocumented workers who would not alert police out of fear of deportation, Lowery said.

Teens targeted Hispanic men