KANSAS CITY (WDAF) – Stephanie Blaco was in constant motion, greeting customers, serving platters of homestyle cooking and working the fryer in the kitchen of her restaurant The Mixing Bowl on Southwest Boulevard.
Customers keep coming back for the breakfast burritos and the plate-size pork tenderloin sandwiches and for the woman who greets them every time they walk in the door.
“She’s very caring, friendly,” said customer Karen Morerod. “Like I say we just hit it off. You don’t do that with everybody.”
Back then, Blaco was wanted in multiple states for fraud, forgery and theft. One of her crimes was scamming people by renting them homes that weren’t available. She’d keep the deposit and disappear before her victims would discover they’d been scammed.
“I was addicted to meth pretty bad,” Blaco said. “I was running from the law, running from parole, running from…
