Crime & Safety
Police: Nazareth Teacher Shoplifted, Left Daughter Behind
Stacee Banko, 32 of Lower Nazareth is free on $10,000 unsecured bail after allegedly loading up a Kohl's shopping bag with merchandise and leaving the store -- without her 11-year-old daughter.
Colonial Regional Police say a Lower Nazareth woman stole from a township department store Saturday, and then left her 11-year-old daughter behind.
Stacee Banko, 32, of the 300 block of Township Line Road, is charged with retail theft and receiving stolen property. She is a teacher in the Nazareth School District.
According to court records, Banko was at the Kohl's store in the Northampton Crossings shopping center when store security spotted her taking a shopping bag, loading it up with merchandise, and then leaving the store.
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Police say Banko's daughter was with her at the time, unaware that her mother was stealing, or that she had left.
Banko was arraigned before on-duty District Judge Gay Elwell in Easton. She was free on $10,000 unsecured bail.
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