“Hey y’all. I’m going to just let some people out.”

When you think of the internet’s most entitled and deceptive con artists, who comes to mind? “Today is a day we announce Fire Festival 2. So, it’s all happening first at the Broadway show.” Some choose a life of crime out of desperation or coercion. Some for the thrill of the payoff, and others because they believe they deserve the world, no matter how many victims they leave in their wake.

“And here’s some small town drama. Stop scrolling because this is how a boutique in Belton, South Carolina, scammed me and others for over $30,000 and counting.”

“The owner of an upstate boutique is behind bars after a scam investigation. Deputies say they think more victims are out there.”

“When we all got together and started talking about it, we realized there are $26,000 — $26,000 worth of missing items.”

A handful of offenders are so notorious they rise to the rank of record-breaking outlaw, earning a moniker that cements their status as a real-life comic book villain, problematically glorified for their devilish ways. “Ah yes, the Boutique Bandit.”

But the thing about a villain is that they naturally create heroes — a justice-seeking person or group determined to hold them accountable. Take the Joker and Batman, Vecna and Eleven, James Charles and basically everybody else. Or, in today’s Susp-ool, the Boutique Bandit and the Facebook moms of South Carolina. And let me tell you, I’m already loving today’s story because what do you mean there’s a vigilante anti-justice moms’ group just taking down villains on Facebook?

“I asked her multiple times, ‘Brooke, just give me my money. Just give me my money. You won’t hear from me again.’”

Now, on her own, an unassuming Facebook mom might seem easy to brush off. Maybe she’s a Karen. Maybe she’s had a couple too many glasses of wine. But when Facebook moms band together with the rage of a thousand status updates, they might just be one of the most powerful forces for good. “Because I’m your mother and I said so.”

So picture this. You’re rocking your baby to sleep as the sun sets on another hot and humid South Carolina evening. Crickets begin to chirp outside, and the soft amber glow of the streetlights filters through your living room windows. As your baby peacefully drifts off in your arms, you notice they’re slowly but surely outgrowing their adorable summer-themed onesie. So, quietly, you hop online to order a new one.

Now, your local children’s boutique recently invited you to a VIP Facebook group where you spot the perfect pre-order deal for cozy Christmas jammies set to arrive just in time for the family Christmas card. You pick out the winter blue set, use the card on file, and start imagining how adorable your baby will look when it arrives in three to four weeks.

But as a few months pass by and while sorting through outgrown baby clothes, it hits you. Wait, I never received that Christmas onesie. So you rush to check the receipt. The delivery date passed weeks ago, and when you open the Facebook group, it’s chaos. Instead of updates on shipping, you read a flood of posts from other moms in the community leaving furious comments that they haven’t received their orders either.

Surely it must be a simple mistake. So you email the owner, a fun lady you’ve spoken to numerous times before. Except this time, she isn’t fun. In fact, she’s nowhere to be found and never responds. Christmas rolls around, and there are still no cute Santa jammies in sight. By now, it’s clear that nearly every customer is experiencing the same thing: broken promises and stolen money.

You look down at your baby’s innocent eyes, and the usual warm feeling in your heart is replaced with a deep-seated need for revenge, because this business owner didn’t just scam you — she scammed your baby, too. So the next morning, after dropping your little one off with the sitter, you drive to the police station, swing open the door, and ask to file a report — where you see standing right there in front of you is the boutique owner herself, handcuffed and posing for a mug shot. Holy sh*t.

But actually, your personal story of justice isn’t over. It’s just beginning.

Welcome to the chaos.

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So, odds are you don’t remember all the cute little clothes that you were dressed in as a baby or toddler, but I can almost guarantee at least one of your parents does. And what might stand out in their memory is how often they had to upgrade your wardrobe as you outgrew your fits quicker than Timothée Chalamet could say goodbye to his Oscar chances thanks to his opera and ballet situation. And yes, I finally got his name right there. Very proud of myself.

“I don’t want to be working in

ballet or opera or you know things where it’s like hey keep this thing alive even though it’s like no one cares about this anymore.”

The subject of today’s Susp-ool ended up facing bigger and bigger consequences after scamming countless parents out of nearly $100,000 and counting. “And here’s some small town drama. Stop scrolling because this is how a boutique in Belton, South Carolina, scammed me and others for over $30,000 and counting.”

Meet Pamela Brooke Shronce, founder of a South Carolina children’s boutique called Thomas and Turner — which yeah, it doesn’t make sense to me either, but here we are. Before being labeled the Boutique Bandit — yes, things are so bad she got a whole criminal nickname — but before her Boutique Bandit days, Brooke ran her baby clothing business like any other millennial mom entrepreneur by being chronically online, where she would post about dressing the community’s kids through song and dance.

Now, from 2021 to 2024, things seemed to be going just fine for Brooke’s baby clothes tycoon arc. She’d post the cute outfits her clients’ kids were wearing, mix in a few trendy TikTok dances to promote the shop, and business was baby booming. “Hey, how are you? Just let me know if you have any questions about anything.”

She wasn’t necessarily viral online by any means. Well, not at the time. But who needs virality when you’re beloved by the moms of Anderson County, South Carolina? “And package my Thomas and Turner haul with me.”

Her company TikTok bio describes her as, quote, “half boutique owner, half unhinged sht happens,” which I’m not even going to lie — sht happens like you’re shipping — this is pretty funny. I’ll give her that. It’s pretty funny. I don’t know if she came up with it, but it’s pretty funny. And yeah, sh*t certainly did happen. After everything that’s come out, a more accurate bio might be “full grifter, full unhinged suspens.” So you can use that one, Brooke, free of charge, because if I charged you for it, you might take it and scam me. Anyways.

Now, everything allegedly changed towards the end of 2025 when a coalition of dissatisfied customers started comparing notes and realized that almost all of their pre-orders were never delivered, and the products they did receive looked nothing like how they were advertised online. It was literally like boutique versus the Shein version.

“When I made that comment, she deleted me off the VIP page and she blocked me on her personal page. And this has happened to a multitude of people.”

“This is what they ordered. Note that it is $27 for bamboo Santa pajamas. They have Santa with a bunch of lights on them. Okay. ETA November. It’s mid-December. Whatever. At least people are finally getting them, right? Wrong. This is what people are getting in the mail. They’re not bamboo, as you can see. They’re actually just cotton and spandex. They are very cheaply made, very poor quality, and they’re like plaid Santa. So, you’re like, ‘What in the world? Did she send the wrong thing?’”

See, somewhere along the way while scaling her small business, Brooke decided to lean heavily into pre-orders for special product launches. Nothing wrong with pre-orders. A lot of businesses do that. But she even created a VIP Facebook group where loyal customers could order items months before their release to the general public. But the private group, which currently has over seven thousand members, had some really strange group rules surrounding pre-orders and refunds, like some sort of baby burping cult.

“The hardest part about going after you is that everybody here genuinely loves you, and you are so good at deflecting.”

For VIP pre-orders, she wrote, and I quote, “ETA these dates are just that — estimated. Please keep in mind that while we strive to have your items to you on or before the ETA, we cannot promise or guarantee this. Therefore, we will not issue a refund for an item being late if it was due to something beyond our control.” Which already sounds a little risky. And it’s a little strange for pre-orders, because typically if you’re buying something weeks or months in advance, there is plenty of time to know exactly how and when something is being fulfilled, right? You collect all the pre-orders, and then you go into the fulfillment. For most people, it’s literally the name: pre-order. And no one’s going to just give you their money without a guarantee, I don’t think. But that’s what Brooke was counting on.

“Money, please.”

“I’m sorry. I don’t have any.”

“Are you joking right now?”

“I’m a little baby.”

“Uh, no. You’re a full grown man.”

“I’m a baby. I have no money.”

Now, leading up to the 2025 holiday season, negative reviews started absolutely susp-ing the Thomas and Turner Facebook page like a little susp-ier had opened up on Mark Zuckerberg’s billion-dollar land grab. Customers accused Brooke of criminal activity for never sending out pre-order products. Yeah, don’t play with these moms from South Carolina — or literally moms anywhere. Leave moms alone. Give them their products and then move on.

Now, one of the first negative reviews claimed, quote, “Has stolen — yes, I said stolen — roughly $300 of my money on items that I never got.” And there’s another quote that says, “Haven’t received multiple orders. Haven’t received refunds that were promised four months ago.” And one reviewer blatantly wrote, quote, “Stop scamming people out of money.”

Then came the TikTok chatter, because we all know that where there are a gaggle of mothers gathering together on Facebook, there are internet sleuths grooving over to TikTok. And so with the TikTok chatter that sort of sealed Brooke’s fate of being absolutely cooked in a way that you are not even prepared for where this story is going.

So the first online video posted by a concerned customer came from Kristen Metaf on December 9th, warning potential new customers and reporting about the collective amount of money missing.

“I bought Christmas outfits from Thomas and Turner back in I would say like May and June, and they were about $300 for all the outfits I bought, with an estimated time arrival between August, September, and October. It’s December now. I don’t have those items, and I have zero communication as to where they are. Are they going to be here? A refund or anything? Thomas and Turner actually says that they do not offer refunds even on things not received, and that is illegal.”

“So once I started speaking about this and a lot of us got together, we were realizing that this has happened a lot over I would say the past four years or so. I’ve seen her be extremely rude to people in comments and emails. But all this being said, when we all got together and started talking about it, we realized there are $26,000 — $26,000 worth of missing items. Items we have not received.”

A few days later, Emily Hollingsworth posted a screenshot on Facebook showing that Brooke had rejected her Venmo request for a $570 refund to cover missing items and a missing gift card, which honestly I didn’t even really stop to think that you could just straight-up decline a Venmo request. I just — the shade of it all. Now, Emily wrote, quote, “I don’t know how people sleep at night knowing that you owe somebody $570. I really don’t know how people sleep at night knowing that you owe people over $40,000.”

Now, I will just take a little presumption here. I will tell you how she sleeps, Emily. And I say this with as much disdain as I know you feel. I have a feeling that she sleeps on bamboo silk sheets that she bought with the money that she stole from you. And yes, I hate it here, too.

“Back to counting me money. One, two, three, four.”

Now, as the total amount of stolen money continued to climb and moms began rallying together online, one mom from South Carolina and a teacher, Catherine Hinsman, led the charge. She posted a TikTok that took awareness of Brooke’s alleged grift to the next level, racking up over two million views. Let’s watch.

Now, she gets straight to the point and speaks kind of quickly, so we’re just going to jump right in here.

“I’ve been shopping there for over three years, since before my daughter was born. At the beginning, it was great. So, it’s a children’s boutique with pre-orders. So you order something and it comes months later.”

Well, that’s the other thing that gets me. Like these pre-orders — like they wait months for it. And that’s a sign of very devoted, loyal customers and fans of the product to be willing to wait that long. And so to take advantage of that is just wild.

“At the beginning, you were always getting your items. It was no big deal. Well, over the past year or so, I’ve noticed that all of the items that I’ve been getting are way past the ETA. So they were supposed to be here in like March. I wouldn’t get them until like June or August.”

Wild. That’s just — and no explanation given to them whatsoever is crazy.

“I thank goodness started really slowing down on my ordering. I rarely ordered anything. And then I noticed that I had ordered something that was supposed to be here in like February, and I realized in like May or June that it hasn’t come at all.”

That’s like — you’re talking what, four months or so? Like what do you — you have one job, Brooke. You have one job. Take the orders, send the products, customer service, do all the things. And you have months to do this. Pre-orders. You have all this time to get all of your sh*t together.

“I reached out to Brooke. I emailed her. I had to email her no less than ten times to finally get a response. And her response is that it’s her store policy that they don’t do refunds.”

Unbelievable. What do you mean you don’t do refunds? You don’t send the product, and you need to have the product, or you better give a refund.

“No, I never got the item. I can’t have a refund. I can have store credit. Well, there’s actually a federal law that says if you don’t get your item, you have to be offered a refund. But Brooke doesn’t care because store policy apparently trumps federal law.”

See, I’m telling you, these Facebook moms — look, look at the intensity. Look at the intensity of this lovely lady. She is on it. She’s like, “Well, actually, here’s what the law says, section code. You fed up. You fed with the wrong mom.” Okay. Unbelievable to just be like, “Oh no, I’m not sending you product and I don’t give you the refund ’cause that’s our policy.” Like as if you saying something is policy means it means — okay, there’s a whole lot of policy going around this country, and it doesn’t mean sh*t.

“So whatever. I mean, I had emailed over and over again. At that point, I finally just got the store credit.”

It sounds like Brooke had concepts of a refund plan.

“Because I’m tired of wasting so much energy on this, so I have store credit. So well, then the cycle continues. I try to order something else. Well, that thing hasn’t come yet either. It was supposed to be here months ago. I’ve emailed over and over and over again with no response. But the thing about Brooke is that she has a Facebook group page. That’s how she gets all of her business. And if you comment anything negative, she deletes you.”

See, I understand a business if they have the ability to remove some negative thing where somebody’s on some bullsh*t, right? They’re just trashing the company and they don’t have anything legitimate to say, legitimate criticism or complaint about the company. You know, sometimes that happens, or trolls or whatever. That’s one thing. But like, you’re literally not sending the products. And then what do you mean she still purchased something from you to try to see if it’ll get cleared up, and you still don’t send it, and then you just are deleting the comments? That’s too much.

“She deletes you and blocks you from the group so nobody sees the comment. And she is on top of those comments. So she deletes them before anybody else can see them.”

Like, what is the purpose here? I get it. The purpose is to steal money from innocent people. But like, why is that what you want to be doing with your life? I don’t get that. Why is that what you want to be doing with your life?

“She also has her settings set to where you can’t comment certain words like ‘order’ and ‘update’ and ‘refund.’ If you try to comment anything with those words, your comment gets declined before it’s even posted.”

You literally can’t even comment about your order. So you literally couldn’t even comment like, “I just received my order and it’s amazing” ’cause you’ll immediately get deleted. That’s so unhinged.

“So, because of that, I didn’t realize how bad things were. And I don’t think many people did either. We knew we weren’t getting many of our orders. We knew that things were slow. We didn’t realize how bad it was.”

It’s wild. And like, you might be tempted to think in these situations like you feel like maybe you’re the only one, you know. And so you’re just like, “Okay, well, I guess I didn’t get through.” And you don’t realize until you manage to get some post through somewhere and then someone else is like, “Hey, she’s going through that too. I went through that.” So there’s two of us. Are there more of us? And that’s how this starts to spiral.

So Brooke’s initial response to all the backlash descended her into the depths of the Susp-ool like a Houdini magic trick gone very, very wrong. She posted a statement from the company’s supposed Chief Financial Officer, who many people believe is completely AI-generated. So I guess the chat — financial — a GPT officer? I don’t know what to call it. But they basically were claiming that they were conducting a full financial audit of Thomas and Turner and blaming third-party payment processors, all while using this vague, kind of grifter-style language saying things like, and I quote, “Brooke does not access company funds without authorization, and all operational decisions are being reviewed as part of a comprehensive recovery plan.”

That is just — that’s bullsht. Okay. Can we just call it what it is? Can we call it what it is? You some bullsht, okay? Brooke’s bullsh*t.

“A week ago, Brooke posted this now-deleted post in her Facebook group, ‘Paul T.’ The funny thing is no one ever knew anything about this girl working for Brooke, and no one knew where this obviously ChatGPT-created post came from. And this part’s alleged, but from what I hear from multiple trustworthy sources, this ‘Britney’ girl didn’t even graduate high school. So I’m not really sure what qualifies her to be a CFO and audit a company. But that’s neither here nor there.”

“The owner of this boutique is someone who literally has zero accountability for what she has done. I’ve seen it for years. She blames everybody around her but herself. And now it looks like she stole $26,000 of our dollars. Okay. Not just in South Carolina. There’s a girl in Kentucky that I’ve seen and Texas. So I’m sure there’s Georgia. I’m sure there’s many other places, but I know those two places specifically.”

Now, what was particularly sinister about Brooke’s bullsh*t — I mean, her pre-order cycle of sus — was that she kept customers waiting just long enough for them to lose eligibility to file a credit card dispute. This is so diabolical.

“Because they’re pre-orders. If you don’t get them, you can’t dispute the charge with your bank because most banks have like a sixty-day window that you can dispute a charge. Well, if you pay for it in March when it’s ordered and you’re supposed to get it in June, but you never get it, by the time you realize you’re not going to get it, it’s past the sixty-day mark. PayPal you can only dispute for 180 days. So all of this is way past the time for us to be able to dispute it. So basically at this point, we’re out all of this money.”

Now, there weren’t too many moms who were willing to make TikToks, understandably. But there were hundreds who were already logged into the millennial moms’ most-read book: Facebook. And with moms everywhere working together to connect the dots, they started a new Facebook support group where victims were able to cooperate their claims, organize, and mobilize again. Hell hath no fury like a wine mom scammed and scorned. Okay, no. I love the energy for this. I love this. I hate that they got scammed, but I love that they got together. You know what I mean? It’s like — it’s power.

“On Facebook, Mason helped create a Thomas and Turner support group. It has over 2,000 members. She claims the support group shows there are thousands upon thousands of unfulfilled purchases.”

No, I got to say — okay, just bring it in. I got to say, it was only a matter of time before someone finally took it out of the Susp-ool. Susan, Susan, you already know. You already know what I’m about to say. Okay, I think it’s time. I think it’s time we hit the grifter gong. Maybe a few times.

“We figured out that she owes us over $40,000, and that number just continues to go up. But Brooke continues to go on business as usual at Thomas and Turner. She even alleges that she’s shipping items out. But who knows if that’s actually true because she obviously has a stash of pictures that she just reposts over and over again. Here’s a picture that she posted in 2023 and then again in 2024. Same exact picture.”

Okay, it’s time to find your land legs, Susperians, because the susp. “These are their stories.”

On December 31st, less than two weeks after Catherine posted her first video, the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office released a public statement on Facebook. Yes, on Facebook. See the irony? And I love that for her. They announced the following, quote: “Investigators from the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office met with a Fairfield County magistrate and presented the facts of the case. Based on the information provided, an arrest warrant was issued for Pamela Brooke Shronce, owner of Thomas and Turner Boutique, on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses in violation of South Carolina Code of Laws Section 16-13-240.”

You’re f***ed. Okay, that’s the end of the code. 240.

“Just months ago, Thomas and Turner Boutique was voted the best children’s store in Belton by the community. Now, it’s at the center of a scam investigation. Thomas and Turner offer some ready-to-ship clothes, but Kristen Metaf says most of what she and others bought were pre-ordered items paid for months before they were expected to be delivered. But according to Metaf and dozens of other people online, their packages of fall and winter clothes never came.”

“When I realized there was so many people with orders that weren’t coming in, I was like, ‘Okay, like something’s going on that’s bigger than just me.’”

According to the legal website Justia in South Carolina, obtaining money with the intent to cheat or defraud for an amount under $2,000 carries a potential sentence of, and I will quote, “fine not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 days.”

Now, Brooke was finally — finally — arrested for the first time on New Year’s Day. Way to start the New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s Day 2026. She’s getting arrested. Could you imagine? She’s over there like — she’s got her “live, laugh, love” sign hung up in the background. She’s pouring a little glass of wine, bringing in the new year, her resolutions. “This year, I’m really going to — I’m going to do it up big. Instead of scamming people at like forty grand, I’m going to go to like a hundred grand, okay? I just — I’ve got big plans for myself, okay? I’m going to stay fit in the way that I just be declining those Venmo requests. Okay, I’m going to work out my fingers, and I am doing it this year. It’s my year.”

And of course, she gave us this beautiful, stunning, incredible mug shot. I just love that for you. Wonderful. 2026. You really — you brought all of the energy. Okay. Live, laugh, and learn to not be doing this.

“Right now, a popular upstate business is at the center of a criminal investigation. The owner of Thomas and Turner Boutique is behind bars tonight. Fairfield County investigators arrested Pamela Shronce after someone there reported being scammed by her business. I’m May Payton reporting. We’re learning more people say they believe they’re also victims. Before the arrest, I heard from a number of people who were telling me about their experience with Thomas and Turner Boutique. After speaking with them, I made many attempts to reach the owner myself.”

“I asked her multiple times, ‘Brooke, just give me my money. Just give me my money. You won’t hear from me again.’ And she didn’t.”

So Brooke’s first arrest warrant, issued for one client’s $111, was just the tip of the iceberg sticking out of the Susp-ool. $111 is a lot of money, but pales in comparison — not to diminish it — but in the overall grand scheme, it pales in comparison to the total amount that she was stealing overall. And this first arrest was a chance for her to make things right before it was too late. Anyone want to take a guess if she makes things right before it’s too late? Ah, if you would guess that she doesn’t, you would be right.

“She lists her unfulfilled purchase items totaling $111. She says Brooke has since given her $44, but not the full amount.”

So that warning would soon spiral into a multi-state Thelma & Louise-style police chase, except with an ending that — it’s not that kind of story.

But Catherine from TikTok was on the case, and we love her for it.

“This right here is Brooke’s charge. I know it says $1,000 or less. Obviously, we know it’s way higher than that, but this arrest is based on one person’s report in Fairfield County. She was released on bond today. She had a $1,000 bond. Based on this, it looks like she’ll have court again in Fairfield County on February the third. This is the post from yesterday from Fairfield Police. This is the day that she got arrested. So, they are urging anybody who was also a victim of this to go to their local police station and file a report there.”

Okay. Okay, so there’s a little sticker comment at the top that says, “Man, I feel like I need to make a report for three orders.” Sounds like they’re saying that they believe they were scammed as well.

“Do it. If you have been scammed by Thomas and Turner Boutique in Belton, South Carolina, call your police department and file a report. Do it today. It took me like two minutes. I didn’t even have to go to the police department. All I did was call the non-emergency number, let them know that I needed to file a report because of a scam. They took my information. An investigator called me back like three minutes later.”

I’m telling you right now, I want this woman on my team, okay? She gets sh*t done, and she communicates it, and she’s like — she’s got that just the forward. We’re just — we’re doing this. This is what we’re going to do. This is the right thing. We’re going to get it done. And I really appreciate that she is educating — that she’s posting this comment to help educate people, not just in this situation that she’s in, but this empowers other people who have been scammed in other businesses and other things that are completely unrelated. If they see a video like this, then they can now understand, oh, going to the police over being scammed or some fraud is not this big scary thing that I might think that it is.

“And the whole conversation took just a few minutes. I mean, it was total less than five minutes of my time. The investigator let me know they have been briefed on it because this is such a widespread thing. So they’re getting everybody’s information. They’re working with other investigators, and they’re trying to figure out kind of where to go since this is in so many different jurisdictions. These are posted by Fairfield County and also by Anderson County where Thomas and Turner is actually located.”

So let me backtrack really quick to read a little bit of this post. It says, “On December 26, 2025, the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office was notified by a resident who reported being the victim of a scam involving Thomas and Turner Boutique, a business located in Belton, South Carolina. Deputies, investigators — I’m just kind of skimming through this — collected all available information and initiated an investigation into the complaint. On December 31st, investigators from the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office met with a county magistrate and presented the facts of the case. Based on the information provided, an arrest warrant was issued for Pamela Brooke Shronce, the owner. Immediately following the issuance of the arrest warrant, the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office coordinated with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office. Ms. Shronce was taken into custody and transported to Anderson County Detention Center. She is currently in the process of being extradited to Fairfield County where she will be formally charged. The Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office recognizes that the case is associated with allegations made by numerous individuals, including claims circulated on social media platforms. Anyone who believes they may be a victim — reach out.”

“At this point, I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t know if we’ll ever get our money back. But if she is ordered to pay our money back, I want my name on that list.”

“And whether you’re out $5 or $500, that’s your money that you deserve to get back. It’s the principle. And you know you’ve wasted way more than five minutes scrolling on TikTok today. So get off TikTok, call your police department, and file a report. Also encourage anybody else who has been scammed by Brooke to file reports as well. The more reports we have, the better our case is. And for everybody else, I’m hoping we’ll have some updates soon, and I will be sure to let you know.”

Do not mess with the moms of Facebook, okay? There’s something in the blood. They’re just built different, okay? They built different out here in these streets. Beware, okay? Susan’s always watching, and so is this lady, okay?

As complaints started piling up, WYFF News 4 from South Carolina posted a questionable statement that, quote, says, “If consumers check with the BBB, they likely would have seen the rating and that could have an impact on their shopping decision.” Now, I listen, okay. I feel like I think I know what they’re trying to say, and they’re just trying to be like, “Do your due diligence before you shop with somebody.” But also like — okay, I’ll be real. Thomas and Turner does have an F score on the Better Business Bureau. Okay, that is a thing that exists in nature.

However, the news station’s statement came across to most people as victim blaming, especially when in today’s world, online reviews and word-of-mouth marketing tend to stretch much farther than the Better Business Bureau. Okay, the big f***ing bureau over here. And like, quick sidebar: the BBB, the Better Business Bureau, is actually potentially a scam. Maybe. I don’t know. At least with some of those reviews, okay, some of those reviews, you’re just looking at them, you’re like, “This is not real. This is not a human being.” And then the responses — and I just —

So first of all, anyone can call — if you didn’t know, anyone can call themselves a bureau. So the BBB, it’s like a privately held company. It can be helpful to aggregate reviews, you know, like an archaic version of Yelp. But it also allegedly extorts business owners by pressuring them to pay high membership fees just to maintain their standing, while accepting payments from just about anyone in exchange for rankings and letter grades. And also, I have encountered a company that was doing a massive f**ing scam. Massive, massive, massive scam, and literally like fifty to a hundred grand a pop per person that they were scamming. And it was this whole thing. And if you looked at their BBB, they have like glowing reviews. And if you report to the BBB, they don’t do sht. Literally, they don’t do sh*t about it.

So Champion Inspect reported the following quote. ABC News also found that a white supremacist website called Stormfront received an A+ rating. Two companies were able to upgrade their C grades to A+ overnight by submitting their credit card numbers. Yeah. So a Facebook group full of passionate, honest moms is going to do way more, in my opinion, for people than the Better Business Bureau ever did.

“But I’m not sure who the spokesperson was for the Better Business Bureau, but they obviously did not do their homework before talking to the news, because all of these complaints and the low rating happen after the scamming. So everybody’s like, ‘Oh, if you would have checked the Better Business Bureau, it would have shown nothing because this was a legitimate business for years before the scamming started.’ So this whole headline is incredibly inaccurate.”

And Catherine Hinsman, our TikTok detective chief, filed her police report in January. And as that happened, word spread quickly, and Brooke — aka Pamela, aka the Boutique Bandit — faced her second arrest just six days after her first. First days, first — second arrest. Like the first, a feeling of swift karma that she’d get used to oh so very, very soon. Again, y’all, this story is so unhinged, ’cause we’re just at the tip of it.

“We have new details out of Easley this afternoon where police say a business owner was arrested for a second time this month. Officials tell us Pamela Shronce, the owner of Thomas and Turner Boutique, was taken into custody yesterday and has been charged with obtaining goods under false pretenses. Shronce has been out on bond since. Authorities confirm investigations involving Shronce are underway in at least two other jurisdictions. Last week, we reported how Shronce was arrested in Anderson County and extradited to Fairfield County on similar charges related to Thomas and Turner Boutique. Anderson County detectives are now asking anyone who might be a victim to come forward and file a report.”

Now, Catherine, I will say, was not happy that the bandit seemed to be smiling in her new mug shot. See that? We got the shot here. I don’t know. What do y’all think of this shot?

“So, she spent a whole hour and a half in jail, but hey, an arrest is an arrest. She got out on a $2,125 PR bond. She’ll appear back in Pickens County on March 4th at 1:30 p.m. for court. And listen, I know I said I wasn’t going to post any of her mug shots, and I truly meant it. But if you’re going to smile in your mug shot, then obviously you have no remorse and you don’t care if people see it. So, here you go.”

I don’t know. After Brooke’s second arrest and hour and a half in jail, I guess she felt a drip drop of remorse and sent out an email to customers talking about wanting to restate Thomas and Turner’s customer policy to clear up any confusion. Oh yeah, honey, the confusion is clear. You’re going to jail. And why do I say that? Well, because it turns out the content of that email actually broke even more laws.

“Brooke states that orders that cannot be fulfilled are resolved through store credit only. But store policy does not override federal law or consumer protection rules. If an order is not fulfilled, a refund has to be offered. Here’s the law if you want to fact-check that. The bottom line is: if you take my money and don’t send me my item, you owe me a refund, not store credit. She also states that circumstances outside of her control equal store credit. But supplier problems are not the customer’s responsibility. FTC rules say that internal or supplier issues do not excuse non-delivery, and the seller must refund if the customer does not agree to wait.”

January was just the beginning of the storm for the sus queen of South Carolina. As February rolled around, she started racking up arrests and court dates like they were people’s Lululemon collections in an overconsumption rage.

“Anderson County detectives within the criminal investigations division say they are investigating at least eight cases right now involving the boutique owner Pamela Brooke Shronce. Detectives right now are really encouraging anyone who feels like they’ve been scammed by this boutique online to come forward and then to report it within their own jurisdiction.”

“Hey y’all. I’m going to just let some people out.”

Now, I guess Brooke Shronce’s New Year’s resolution was, again, reaping what she sowed, because over the course of February and into March, she was arrested more than a dozen times. A dozen meaning more than twelve times, in over five counties, with her first court date on February 3rd.

“Any guesses what she pled? Not guilty. How she could think she’s not guilty when we have so much evidence stacked up against her is beyond me, but that is her right. So she will go to a jury trial at the end of the month. She is scheduled to appear in Pickens County, which is the second county that arrested her, on March 4th, where I assume she’ll probably also plead not guilty.”

Now, on February 6th — one of the most iconic days in this woman hunt — Brooke was arrested twice in the same f***ing day. How does that even work? Not even that TikToker who got arrested like twice after posting her own thefts — you know, the Target thief we did a piece on — not even she got arrested that fast. That is wild. How do you get arrested twice in the same day? Like, does Brooke post bail, and then the same cop who like let her out of the jail cell, like as soon as she steps outside, the cop just starts reading her Miranda rights again? I don’t even know how that works.

“Breaking news in an upstate fraud investigation we’ve been following. According to new details, boutique owner Pamela Shronce has been arrested a fourth time, the latest in connection to new charges in Easley. Right now, she’s in custody at the Easley Detention Center, awaiting a bond hearing. Police arrested her Thursday for a charge of obtaining property under false pretenses. And that comes after Shronce was arrested in Spartanburg County yesterday after two separate reports from victims regarding Thomas and Turner Boutique owned by Shronce. The boutique owner has now been arrested four times in connection to her business. So let’s walk through some of those. The first happened back in December in Fairfield County, followed by an arrest in Easley last month, and then this week, arrests in Spartanburg County and then Easley once again. That’s the fourth time.”

Now, like any good American entrepreneur, trademark, Brooke tried her best to continue business as usual while being dragged through criminal prosecution, posting on the Thomas and Turner Facebook page in an attempt to garner some sympathy and, I’m guessing, stop anyone else from coming forward. Here’s a quote:

“Some things are bigger than the noise. This tradition was built with intention and love. My mama didn’t raise a woman who quits. She raised one who shows up, does the work, and keeps going, no matter the season. Love and miss you, mama.”

That is a wild, wild statement to make — evoking, I guess, trying to get sympathy for her mom. I don’t know if her mom had passed. But that’s just like — that’s unhinged. It’s unhinged. Like Taylor Frankie Paul posting online and responding to people’s TikToks while all these accusations have been literally going everywhere, and the Bachelor being canceled and all that stuff — it’s just like, what is happening? And again, to Brooke’s post, I don’t know that I would consider multiple crimes “noise,” but I have to applaud her creative spin. Maybe she can sell shirts with her mug shots on them, too. Look — here’s the mug shot again. Can we see this on a t-shirt? Or put it on like one of the babies’ onesies?

The moment I said that out loud, I was like, “Oh no. Oh no. Don’t do something like that.” But you know, we can just — no.

Now, Brooke really tried milking the sympathy and shared this video alongside her post about her mom.

“I do it now in memory of my mom. She passed away in 2008. I was twelve. And when we grew up together — I’m going to cry, I’m sorry — but we always did yard sales, and we went to every jockey lot in the state of North Carolina and South Carolina. And that’s what I grew up doing, was picking, as they call it. And she always said, ‘Hey, Brooke, you know, there’s no need to like go buy full-price stuff. People sell their new stuff for half price.’ She’s like, ‘You just got to find the deals, Brooke. You just got to find the deals.’”

Yeah. I don’t know. Maybe just like — I don’t know. Tell it to the judge, girl.

“You need a therapist.”

“Do you have a therapist?”

“I did, but he said I didn’t need it anymore.”

“That never happened.”

On February 9th, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department spilled some major tea on their Facebook group. Love that. Again, police stations having a social media presence is one of the most underrated features basically existing in the twenty-first century. It’s also very, very unhinged. They’ll always have more tea than anyone. It’s kind of like — I don’t know, is it genius? It’s wild.

And so this time, the tea was felony-flavored. So they posted the following quote: “A lengthy investigation has led to a felony arrest of a local boutique owner accused of scamming now more than fifty customers within Anderson County. Detectives have charged Pamela Brooke Shronce, who goes by Brooke, with the felony charge of breach — obtaining property under false pretenses after scamming Anderson County victims out of more than $10,000.”

“Brooke has been arrested six times. Brooke’s charge in Abbeville County is the same as the other ones — obtaining goods under false pretenses. But this one is another felony. So this one is over $2,000, which makes it felony level. So to recap: the first four — which was Fairfield County, Easley City, Spartanburg County, Easley City — all of those four were misdemeanor charges, which is under $2,000. Then she got arrested in Anderson County, which is a felony charge over $10,000. And then Abbeville County today, another felony over $2,000.”

Now, a recording of Brooke’s felony bond hearing was leaked on Facebook — of course — where she can be seen appearing to, I don’t know, maybe roll her eyes during one of the victim statements to the judge. So yeah, Boutique Bandit is fitting, but also maybe she’s also the Petty Prisoner.

“I shopped with her. I supported her. I represented her brand and even trusted her enough to allow her to buy a kitten from me right before this all blew up. What has been the hardest for me is not just the financial loss, but the complete lack of accountability.”

Now, one commenter even said the following quote: “I think she has on that blouse I paid her for.” That is so wild. Can you imagine? Oh, Brooke, you were busy.

Now, speaking of comments, actually, let’s just take a minute to look at some of these hilariously poignant comments that have just basically littered her Instagram page since all of her arrests started going down. And yes, this section of the Susp-ool does count towards college credit at Penny University. There are lots of photos and GIFs of prison-related content, and people saying things like, you know, “Cutest little jailbird you ever did see.” Someone was even generous enough to offer her some sound business advice, saying, quote, “Hey, you can always try to scam prisoners.” My gosh.

Okay. Anyways, back to the arrest timeline. On January 11th — the same day of her seventh arrest (yes, seven) — Brooke appeared in court where she was granted a $5,000 personal recognizance bond. And the judge is definitely up to date on the tea. So let’s watch.

“Good afternoon. I’m Judge Brownlee. I’m going to be conducting a bond hearing on you this afternoon. Miss Pamela Brooke, pronounce your last name for me.”

“Shronce.”

“Shronce. Okay.”

Oh, we in the South now. We in South Carolina with these accents. I love it.

“I’ve been trying to pronounce it. You know what? I just told her to pronounce it for me. Try. Okay.”

This judge is being real nice. Real professional. Real nice. We’re just here. We’re going to go over the things, and that’s a good sign of a fair judge, etc., etc.

“But I’m gonna — since I may butcher your name, I’m just gonna call you Pamela. Okay.”

I love how the judge is like, “I may butcher your name, I may mispronounce it, so I’m just going to call you Pamela.” Like, it’s literally just like — we’re not here to waste each other’s time, okay? Like, I’m here, you’re here, we got to deal with this. I love that.

“All right. You have your attorney present today, Attorney Joy Davis. Welcome again.”

Even judges mispronounce. They don’t care. Moving on.

“Attorney Davis. Courts. Um, everywhere I have a little tick mark for you to sign your rights form, attorney. You may look at this and review it. I’m sure you’re familiar with this, you know, with everything on here. So the first form, you’re going to sign that, and I have a card up under here. So press down so it can go through. And your next form is going to be your initial court appearance date. And that’s scheduled, like I say, for May the 8th at 9:00. And I have everything highlighted on that. I took consideration.”

So they’re just going through the court formalities and scheduling and all of that type of thing, and you can just see her sitting there in her orange.

“From the investigator, I also made my decision to set her bond at $5,000, and this is a personal recognizance bond. I am — what are you using? On her own recognizance?”

“Personal recognizance bond.”

Just to give a little background, a PR bond is a personal recognizance bond, which allows an arrested individual to be released from jail without paying bail. It’s kind of based on their written promise to appear in court. So it’s a signature bond, often granted to what’s considered low-risk defendants with strong community ties, a clean record, and no threat to public safety. So just so you understand what’s going on.

“And the condition that I’m placing upon her that you must abide by: you must appear in court on May the 8th, 2026 at 9:00. You may — you must have no contact with the victims directly or indirectly. You must keep the peace and must not get arrested while —”

“I don’t mind.”

That’s interesting that she’s like, “You must not have contact with the victims directly or indirectly.” And I’m very curious — if there’s any legal brains in the chat right now — how do you define indirect contact? Because when she’s posting on — she continues to like post on her store’s Facebook page and social media stuff, and obviously victims see those postings. Is that considered indirect contact of them? I’m so curious about that.

“Okay. If you have more charges forthcoming from this same incident —”

“Okay. Yes, ma’am.”

“Understand?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Any questions?”

“No ma’am.”

“Okay. Now, give me your physical address.”

So on February 13th — she appeared — oh, that was Friday the 13th, wasn’t it? Ooh. Ooh. She was — on Friday the 13th, she appeared at another courthouse where the judge granted her yet another $4,250 bond. And they literally had to ask whether the scheduled court date conflicted with any of her other court appearances. Which — oh, girl.

“All right. Miss Shronce, you were charged with two counts of obtaining goods under false pretenses. You have an initial court date of March 25th, 2026, 10:00 a.m. Just out of curiosity, does that — are you aware of that conflicts with any other court cases you have?”

“What was the date again, sir?”

“March 25th, 2026.”

“It does not.”

“It does not. Okay. That’ll be your first appearance opportunity. You show up to court. It’s just going to be an opportunity to enter a plea — guilty, not guilty.”

Imagine having to check your Google Calendar to see if your court dates conflict with each other. But let’s remember, this is the Boutique Bandit we’re dealing with. So it’s, you know, it’s giving “booked and busy,” honey.

“Booked and busy, honey. That’s right. I’m booked and busy.”

So while Brooke was busy driving to the courthouse, police station, another courthouse, another courthouse, a plane — no sleep — she somehow found time to keep things seeming as normal as possible over on her Facebook page, trying to drive more sales and keep the important conversation going, like making a post asking for Netflix recommendations. You literally can’t — you can’t make this up.

The only explanation I can come up with for why she hasn’t just completely gone silent is that this scam — I mean, business — is her primary source of income, and these lawyer fees and bond prices aren’t cheap. She might literally be trying to offload her inventory to pay for all of this. Now, thankfully, in another rendition of the internet never disappoints, people were dropping some great Netflix recommendations under that post. You know, they got like Den of Thieves, How to Catch a Thief, Inventing Anna.

“We really don’t have time for this.”

“What else are you lying about? Who the f*** are you?”

“I do not have time for this. I do not have time for you.”

I’d personally recommend Orange Is the New Black for an educational element.

“I have a wife. What? A prison wife. Her name is Crazy Eyes, and she follows me everywhere. That really happens. Jeez.”

So as February marched on and six more weeks of winter were upon us, Brooke Shronce faced an increasing pile of arrests that sunk her further and further down into the Susp-ool by Susan and her purple submarine.

“All right, here’s your update on Thomas and Turner. Brooke was just arrested for the ninth time in Richland County. The charge is the same as it was in all the other counties. It was receiving goods under false pretenses.”

February 9th marked Brooke’s ninth arrest, and the next day, February 10th, marked her tenth. Can you imagine? Again, one time she gets arrested twice in the same day, and now she’s getting arrested one day and then the very next day she’s getting arrested again. And so that’s number ten, which is most definitely a record for the Susp-ool. But what about a record for South Carolina? So I looked into the South Carolina arrest record history, and she might be the second-most arrested person in the entire state’s history. And that’s only behind Alexander Dickey, a convicted murderer who was arrested thirty-nine times before finally being put away for good.

Now, the news station that had been covering the chronicles of the Boutique Bandit made a point to use this outrageous opportunity to promote another local kids’ apparel shop. Well, we got Fox Carolina. Oh, that sounds like a good — that’s like a good drag name. Fox Carolina. I can see it. Okay.

“Even though Brooke was arrested here in Greenwood for the tenth time, she’s still trying to sell clothes online. And now some other boutique owners are saying what’s happened is simply unbelievable.”

“There were so many customers that have been taken advantage of. And to me, that is unfathomable.”

“Ten arrests in less than two months.”

Look at this shade. They have every — they have every photo. Every single photo lined up here. The absolute shade. And I’m just going to say, like, the glam just keeps glamming. Okay. She’s got some looks going on. Ooh, the bob is bobbing and weaving just the way she was trying to bob and weave out of these charges. They got her. Okay. The bob didn’t get you out of this one, girl.

“It’s raising alarms among other boutique owners in Greenwood.”

“That is unbelievable. Um, and it’s just so disheartening that that had to happen.”

“Before Friday’s arrest in Greenwood, Shronce was also arrested in Richland County on Thursday. The Greenwood Police Chief says Shronce now faces three counts of breach of trust with fraudulent intent.”

Three counts. Breach of trust, fraudulent intent. She’s out here scamming, deceiving, lying with the intent to defraud people. And so many people. And I just have to feel like — as frustrating as this must be for the victims, and as angry and upsetting, disappointing, concerning, stressful as I would imagine this has been for them — I hope that they feel some type of justice. I hope they get their money back. But nothing’s going to pay them back for all of the time and stress that they’ve had to endure through this process, which is their time. Their time is valuable. I mean, they’re moms. My gosh, their time is very, very, very valuable. And I just — I feel like I hope that this gives them some type of — what’s the word? Validation, vindication, just some type of goodness in their body, seeing some actual justice playing out here.

“She was given a $6,000 bond. Shronce is the owner of Thomas and Turner Boutique, and even though she’s been in and out of jail, she’s still active on social media.”

Unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. When I think about this, I’m literally thinking about Taylor Frankie Paul with this whole Bachelor — Bachelorette — thing that just exploded everywhere, and the video of her and the violence and the child — that’s a whole other story and situation that is just so, so, so dark and tragic. And seeing that Taylor Frankie Paul is literally posting still on TikTok and talking about, “Well, I’ve still got work, so I’m still going to work,” it just blows my mind, because there’s literally all of these allegations everywhere. Now the press is all over it. Everyone’s covering it. The Bachelorette just canceled their season — or at least delayed it. We’ll see if they ever try to revive it. But to be posting during this time just seems so bizarre to me, because anything that you post literally will be scooped up and discussed everywhere and probably used against you at some point in time. And it’s just wild that Brooke is out here just posting as if business as usual. “I’m just going to get some customers.” And what — were you going to scam some new people? What is this?

“You can see she was marketing products earlier this month. Her store was even voted Best Children’s Clothing Store in the 2025 Best of Your Hometown Awards, but many people claim they placed and paid for orders they never received. Other boutique owners like Sandy Milan —”

What a cute shop. I don’t know if you’re in the area, but that looks like a cute shop. And I have a feeling that she’s probably not going to scam you. I mean, you literally — the product is there, and you could just swipe your card at checkout and leave with your product. That’s a cute little shop.

“Boutique worries cases like this one are hurting the reputation of boutique owners across the state. We just do not want one bad apple to ruin the best — the rest of the bunch.”

She is so Southern. That is so cute. “We don’t want one bad apple to ruin the best — the rest of the bunch.” Very cute.

“We have the most loyal, amazing customers ever. And we’re going to do everything in our power to make sure that you receive inventory that you purchase. That is how most all boutiques will operate. Milan has owned Sugar for nearly two decades.”

I love that she’s getting this promotion out of this and is now left doubling down to earn customer trust.

“I named it Sugar because I want to have the sweetest customer service around. Our customers are everything.”

Come on. “Sugar” for the sweetest customer. She knows what she’s doing. Okay. I don’t know if she’s online as well, but good for you.

“Clearly, they’re the reason we’re here.”

I love that. She’s got a good energy.

So Brooke’s arrest warrants were being issued so rapidly that police officers reportedly had to wait in line for their turn to arrest her for the eleventh time.

“Well, Justin, it’s hard to believe, but for the eleventh time, Brooke was booked. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says they secured arrest warrants last week, but they actually had to wait for other agencies to get her into custody. Finally, today.”

I don’t know if it’s just me, but did she start doing glam for her mug shots? Has she had a mug shot glow-up?

“A boutique owner here in South Carolina has been arrested for the eleventh time this year. This is Brooke Shronce in a mug shot from her most recent arrest.”

Now, I kid you not, dear Susperians. On her twelfth arrest — what are we doing? Twelfth. She has been arrested twelve times. Literally, only Father Christmas can compete with that. Okay.

On the twelfth day of Brooke, my warden gave to me — twelve arrests for fraud, felony. That was really hard for me to do. If y’all saw the number of times that I tried to sing that — I’m going to have editor, can you play back a little tape of me doing that? ‘Cause it was terrible.

“On the twelfth day of Brooke, my warden gave me — on the twelfth day of Brooke — twelve arrests for —” I can’t even do this, y’all. I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself, and honestly, neither could everyone else in the media who was blown away. Not since men started buying podcast equipment have we seen such audacity.

Fox Carolina posted a headline that said, quote, “Booked by the Dozen.” Seriously, “Brooked” was right there. “Booked by the Dozen” is how I would have written that. But who cares? Um, “Brooked by the Dozen. SC boutique owner arrested for the 12th time.”

“Altogether she’s facing almost twenty charges — a mix of obtaining goods under false pretenses and breach of trust.”

Now, one person made a really important point in the comments on Facebook, pointing out that, quote, “She did it. Now we have a calendar.” Meaning twelve times — you got the twelve months. “I’ve been waiting for this. Time to make a calendar.”

So, Susperians, should we make a calendar? I’ve already got the mockups made. Okay, look. We’ve got all of the months of the year. Listen, we can count down. She literally got arrested on New Year’s Day. What do you mean we’re not making a 2026 calendar? So here it is. It’s unnecessary glory.

Okay, back to being professional. What am I talking about? This is a Susp-ool. Who cares? We’ll save that for the main channel. But also, I got to pull this back up again. This calendar — it could really be the perfect way to keep track of all of your court dates. I’m just saying. It could be the perfect thing.

And oh, wait, wait, hold up. I just got a little — I just got a little message. Oh. Oh, what’s this? While I’m filming this, it seems like she was just arrested for the thirteenth time. I just — should we go for a fourteenth? Is she going for a fourteenth? If she went for a fourteenth, I’ll put it in the pin somewhere. But like — wait, hold on a second. So should the calendar have one month that’s like two pictures, or should we like use one of them side by side? Okay, I’m sorry. I’m getting sidetracked.

Okay, so she was arrested for a thirteenth time. Okay. I just —

“Well, a First Alert for you tonight. A Belton boutique owner arrested again. This is now her thirteenth arrest in nearly nine weeks. You can see all thirteen of those mug shots right there.”

Now, speaking of products to sell, it turns out that she’s actually listed her entire business — the esteemed Thomas and Turner Boutique — she’s listed it for sale. Get this. When you — y’all, I just — oh, I’m trying to get through this. Take one guess. I’m going to give you five seconds. Four, three, two — Facebook Marketplace. Okay, Facebook f***ing Marketplace.

She has listed this. Look at this. Facebook Marketplace. “I’m selling —” I just said — this is too much. Oh, this is too much. Honey, girl, what’s going on?

“We did some digging and found the boutique storefront listed on Facebook Marketplace with an asking price of $250,000. The company overseeing the listing is McCoy Wright Commercial Real Estate. We actually found the listing on their website, too. According to property records, Shronce has owned the property since 2022.”

And you know what? I don’t know, man. I’ve been wanting to invest in some property in Belton, South Carolina. So I sent a message to see if it was in fact available. And I got a response back within literally fifteen seconds. So maybe we can open like a Susp-ool public pool for swimming/hybrid cat sanctuary. It would also be a great place to sell all of our calendars.

“Can you make hundreds of dollars by simply reselling a $1 calendar? Let’s find out.”

And like one brave reporter even went up to the door and knocked.

“We stopped by Brooke Shronce’s Belton boutique earlier. We talked to people in the parking lot who said they saw Shronce go inside the store. When we walked up, the business had its curtain shut and the door locked. I knocked several times, waited, and knocked again. I sat outside the store for a few minutes, but no one ever came to the door.”

Wow. She said, “Do Not Disturb” mode is on, honey.

“Had your kids, had your wife.”

Now, even though this Susp-ool has spiraled so far out of control with thirteen arrests and likely more to come, it’s important to remember that each of those arrests represent a real person who was scammed out of their hard-earned money by Brooke. And that’s really just a fraction of the victims. They said at least fifty victims.

Now, while it might seem easier or more convenient for the state’s attorney general to step in and pursue like one large fraud charge, that isn’t what’s happening and likely won’t. And also, I don’t know the inner workings of the law and how it is in South Carolina and if that was a possibility or not. But each alleged incident is different in its amount and the relationship and the harm caused. And because of that, I think that every case is tried individually. And I think they all deserve their day in court to face the one who defrauded them. And they also deserve their adorable Santa pajamas for their kiddos. Hopefully just in time for Christmas 2027.

And y’all, I’m not even — wait. Hold up, hold up, y’all. I’m not even joking. I just looked it up again. She’s literally officially just been arrested for the fourteenth time. The fourteenth time. Brooke is nothing if not an overachiever at this point.

Susperians, this story was wild. It’s time to step out of the dark waters of the Susp-ool, grab a towel, dab, and dry off. That’s what I got. Let me know what you think in the comments. This is wild. And if some of you are out there and you know how the law works and reasons why this would be all handled as individual cases — am I correct in my thought process on that? Or if there are finer details about it, I would love to know.

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