{"id":639931,"date":"2026-05-01T03:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639931\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:32:12","slug":"police-search-for-vancouver-island-online-dating-scammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639931\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for Vancouver Island online dating scammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Vancouver Island man is currently wanted for breach of court-ordered conditions in connection with a series of online dating scams.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Vancouver Crime Stoppers says Brodie Brooks pleaded guilty in 2025 to defrauding 14 people, mostly women, throughout the Greater Victoria area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used online dating platforms to identify and contact victims, ultimately stealing more than $90,000,\u201d Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrodie Brooks is strongly advised to turn himself in to Saanich Police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police advise members of the public to never, under any circumstances, send money to people they meet online.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Books\u2019 whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Vancouver Island man is currently wanted for breach of court-ordered conditions in connection with a series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-639931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}