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Mesa police arrested two Phoenix men Thursday on suspicion of committing a home invasion in November that netted $80,000 in cash.
One of the robbers kicked a 3-year-old during the robbery and punched the mother in the face, court documents state.
Police linked Rene Perez, 21, to the Nov. 13 robbery by fingerprints.
The victim also picked Joaquin U. Barraza, 23, out of a photo line up.

A robber got away with pain pills from a Mesa pharmacy after threatening to set off a bomb.
According to a written Mesa police summary of the incident, a man placed a bag with a cell phone on it on the counter of Az Discount Pharmacy, 1059 N. Mesa Drive, demanded the pills and said he would detonate the bomb if police arrived within three minutes.
Police evacuated nearby businesses and conducted a search by ground and air officers, but they couldn’t find the suspect.
There was no bomb in the bag, police said.
Police are looking for a white male in his 30s, 6 feet, 200 pounds who was wearing a grey sweatshirt with red lettering, a red baseball cap and wearing a Bluetooth.

A Mesa woman accused in the stabbing of an 80-year-old man who later died in the hospital pleaded guilty Tuesday to a count of aggravated assault.
Michael Scerbo, spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors are going to ask for a 4-year prison sentence for Tina Salazar, 22, at her sentencing scheduled for Feb. 22.
Jerry Naponelli said he stabbed Salazar after she stabbed him July 3 at his east Mesa home.
Salazar told police Naponelli stabbed her, but she didn’t remember stabbing him.
Naponelli died 15 days later after a series of medical complications and surgeries.

An alert neighbor and team work of Gilbert police led to the arrest of a burglar Wednesday.
A neighbor called police to tell them a man was pacing in front of 20 S. Buena Vista Ave., and he pried the front door as she called police.
An officer went into the house and heard noise in the basement and found the suspect, John Elroy Kraklio II, 33, leaving through a basement window.
He ran into the arms of two other Gilbert officers.
Police found Kraklio’s car and stolen items in it, including the duffel bag of a Phoenix firefighter who reported it stolen that morning in Tempe.