Female home invasion suspects terrorized Fla. family

MIAMI, Fla. - Police are searching for two armed women who broke into a Miami home, terrorized the family inside and pointed a gun at a toddler and an infant, reports CBS Miami.

Natalia Alcantara and her husband Maynor Martinez say two armed women they've never seen before broke into their home early Monday morning. Once inside, they allegedly grabbed a knife from the kitchen counter and made their way into a bedroom where the family was resting.

Alcantara told CBS Miami she immediately gathered up her two-month-old daughter.

"As a mother I just wanted to defend my children. I didn't move at all so they wouldn't threaten the kids," Alcantara told the station in Spanish.

She says the women pointed the gun at her two-month-old and then at another one of her children, who is one-and-a-half, and demanded money and valuables.

"I was scared because they were going to do something. (The women) were drugged out and I thought they were going to shoot the kids. I told them to please be calm for the babies, but they didn't care," Martinez told the station.

Martinez says he gave the robbers everything he had - $300 in cash and the couples' cell phones. He says he and his wife are desperate for police to find the women because until they do, they can't sleep.

The couple says the women appeared to be in their late 30s, had dark complexions, and one of them had a growth on her neck, reports the station.

Anyone who can assist police in identifying the women is urged to call Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS.