This is the first entry in my "What the hell is the matter with these people?" contest for 2006
For those of you who aren't familiar with the area, San Ramon is middle class and upper middle class. The parents are professionals - a plumber and a dentist and clearly they had enough money to board the puppies. I can't imagine what would possess them to leave a ten year old in charge for four days. When the cops tried to call them using the emergency numbers that they had left with the boys, it took hours before they finally reached them.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/05/MNGL8GHMUM1.DTL Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, January 5, 2006
A San Ramon couple who police said left their 5- and 10-year-old sons home alone -- but got a dog-sitter for their puppies -- were arrested Tuesday after celebrating the New Year in Las Vegas for five days.
San Ramon police met Jacob Calero, 39, and his wife, Michelle De La Vega, 32, aboard America West Flight 6550 after it arrived at Oakland International Airport at 11 a.m., police said. Investigators had been eager to talk to the couple since finding their boys safe but alone in the couple's luxury apartment Saturday, one day after the parents took off. The 5-year-old boy is autistic, relatives said.
Calero and a tearful De La Vega, the children's stepmother, refused to talk to the detectives, who arrested them on two counts each of felony child endangerment, police said. The couple, who police said may have left the kids home alone before, remained jailed Wednesday night in lieu of $200,000 bail each. They refused media requests for interviews.
Police found the children alone Saturday evening after receiving a phone call from their concerned maternal grandmother, Liberata Holden. The children are now in Holden's custody.
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