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Parents Accused of Ditching Kids At Walmart On Black Friday

Posted: 5:25 pm EST November 27, 2009Updated: 6:27 pm EST November 28, 2009

COMMERCE, Ga. -- Two people face reckless conduct charges after police said they left their young children in a shopping cart inside a Georgia Walmart while they went shopping.

It happened at about 7 a.m. on Black Friday at the Walmart in Commerce in Banks County.

Police said Mario Navarro, 35, and Elias Esmeralda, 31, put a 9-month-old girl and a 9-year-old child in a shopping cart and pushed the cart off to the side inside the Walmart and went shopping.

One witness told Channel 2 Action News that Walmart employees paged the parents for more than 45 minutes before they used store surveillance video to track them down.

Police said Walmart staff contacted the Banks County Sheriff's Office.

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