The Co-Knuckleheads of the Day award Part Four

Our fourth set of winners for today are Jacob Calero and Michelle De La Vega. They are parents to Joshua and Jason Calero, respectively ages Nine and five.

These two lunatic parents went on a trip to Las Vegas for New Year's, leaving the two boys home alone by them. These idiots got someone to sit their dogs but left their kids alone! Unbelievable, where do these people come from???

For being total morons for the New Year's holiday by abandoning their children, Jacob Calero, and Michelle De La Vega are two of today's Co-Knuckleheads of the day.

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MANTECA, Calif. - A married couple who got a dog sitter for their puppies but left the man's young children home alone while they vacationed in Las Vegas were arrested Wednesday, police said.

Jacob Calero, 39, and Michelle De La Vega, 32, were taken into custody as they arrived home on a flight to Oakland. They had left town Friday to celebrate the new year, authorities said.

The couple apparently told 9-year-old Joshua to look after his 5-year-brother, Jason, who is autistic. The children spent one night alone before police found them.

The grandmother, Libbey Holden, said she called police because she had suspected the couple left the children at home in San Ramon, about 35 miles east of San Francisco.

"I had big concerns," Holden said. "These kids are helpless."

Joshua said his father and stepmother got each other puppies for Christmas, which they brought to De La Vega's mother to care for before leaving town.

"I thought they loved them more than us," Joshua told The Associated Press during an interview at his maternal grandmother's apartment. The children's mother died in 2003.

He added that he and his brother ate cereal for breakfast and cooked frozen dinners in the microwave.

"I didn't know who I could call in an emergency. Even if I called my father, he's far away, so there wouldn't be much he could do,"

Calero and De La Vega each were being held on suspicion of two felony counts each of child endangerment. Bail was set at $200,000.