OAKLAND — Alameda County prosecutors have struck plea deals with two alleged robbers, both of whom were accused of luring their victims into a false sense of security with the help of a suspected prostitute.

In one case, Nicholas Lewis, 31, was sentenced to nine days he already served in jail plus probation after pleading no contest to grand theft. In another, Luis Silva, 24, also pleaded no contest to grand theft for a two-year probation term, court records show.

The cases were separate but involved similar allegations. Lewis was accused of robbing and pepper-spraying a man with the help of 18-year-old Janiya Brown Lee. Police say a 69-year-old victim was robbed at the Travel Inn on the 400 block of West MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland on the night of Jan. 11. On the witness stand, he de

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