Teh One Who Knocks
09-15-2014, 12:08 PM
BY Meg Wagner - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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A sticky-fingered teacher made her daughter into a pint-sized partner in crime.
Pasco County officials arrested Amanda Jo Hammon Thursday after she allegedly stole $1,700 worth of goods by stuffing the contraband in her 3-year-old daughter's pink backpack and then making the tot walk out of the store.
The string of thefts earlier this month all happened at the same Walmart, WFTS reported.
The 30-year-old had taught at Wesley Chapel's John Long Middle School for about 10 years before she abruptly resigned Wednesday with a short handwritten letter.
Tipped off my Walmart surveillance, sheriffs tracked her down a day later and arrested her alongside her boyfriend, Jason Dorman.
Investigators said the couple stole from the Walmart four times. In each shoplifting stint, the two slipped electronics, including speakers, into the toddler's backpack, put the bag back on the child and then walked her out the front door.
After her arrest, Hammon told police she was planning to sell the stolen goods for drug money.
Hammon faces grand theft and delinquency of a minor charges and is being held on $20,150 bail, the Tampa Tribune reported. Her daughter is staying with a neighbor.
http://i.imgur.com/PWaJj0Qm.jpg
A sticky-fingered teacher made her daughter into a pint-sized partner in crime.
Pasco County officials arrested Amanda Jo Hammon Thursday after she allegedly stole $1,700 worth of goods by stuffing the contraband in her 3-year-old daughter's pink backpack and then making the tot walk out of the store.
The string of thefts earlier this month all happened at the same Walmart, WFTS reported.
The 30-year-old had taught at Wesley Chapel's John Long Middle School for about 10 years before she abruptly resigned Wednesday with a short handwritten letter.
Tipped off my Walmart surveillance, sheriffs tracked her down a day later and arrested her alongside her boyfriend, Jason Dorman.
Investigators said the couple stole from the Walmart four times. In each shoplifting stint, the two slipped electronics, including speakers, into the toddler's backpack, put the bag back on the child and then walked her out the front door.
After her arrest, Hammon told police she was planning to sell the stolen goods for drug money.
Hammon faces grand theft and delinquency of a minor charges and is being held on $20,150 bail, the Tampa Tribune reported. Her daughter is staying with a neighbor.