Sentencing is scheduled Friday for Alvaro Regalado and Juan Arriero, who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a spree of robberies, including one in La Mesa in which a 16-year-old Arizona boy was shot in the head.
Authorities said the defendants were armed with a shotgun and a pistol when they held up seven people in five robberies in June 2011. Among the victims was a 16- year-old Arizona boy, who was in town to visit family when he decided to go skateboarding alone in the 7300 block of El Cajon Boulevard around 2 a.m.
The robbers took a small amount of cash from the boy and shot him the head, but the bullet only grazed the teen and he survived, authorities said.
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