Brooke Bernasconi

Name:
Bernasconi, Brooke Leigh

Date of Booking:
08/04/2025

Reason(s) For Booking:
Wearing Mask, Hood, or Device which Conceals Identity of Wearer (M)

Public Drunk

Officer’s Narrative:
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On 08/04/2025 at around 0258 hrs, I responded to a disturbance at [200 BLOCK] Spanish Trails Way. While en route, Dispatch advised that their caller advised a male threatened her with a gun. Upon arrival, I met with resident [VICTIM #1] at her front door. [VICTIM #1] initially said nothing was wrong and that it was just a noise disturbance. Another female, later identified as Brooke Bernasconi, was standing behind [VICTIM #1] and shaking her head. I had Brooke come outside and talk to me while Deputy Parks-Lewis spoke with [VICTIM #1] and then her boyfriend, Slayton Stansell.

Upon speaking with Brooke, she had heavily slurred speech and smelled very heavily of alcoholic beverage. She said she came to the residence to pick up Slayton, an acquaintance she met online, and when she got to the house, an argument ensued between her, Slayton, and [VICTIM #1] in which Slayton displayed a gun and tried to open a door that she was trying to shut him out of. She had a slight abrasion on her right arm, which she said was from the door. Brooke was not being clear on what started the argument and seemed to lack a cognitive train of thought.

Upon speaking with [VICTIM #1] and Slayton, who showed no signs of intoxication, Slayton and [VICTIM #1] denied possessing any firearm. Slayton stated that Brooke was an acquaintance whom he had asked to pick him up a night before, but told her not to come to their house today. Slayton showed me text messages from this morning between him and Brooke where she said she was going to show up at the house whether he liked it or not and that she was going to “beat her ([VICTIM #1]’s) a*s.” Slayton indicated in the text messages that he did not want her there and that he had gotten a ride already. Slayton supplied me with screenshots of the text messages, which I uploaded to this report as well as the I drive. [VICTIM #1] supplied me with doorbell camera footage of her and Slayton shutting Brooke out of the house and Brooke knocking on the door saying “unlock the door” and “unlock it, baby.” Brooke, at one point kicked the door, but it was not effective because her gait was so off.

During my investigation, I had to tell Brooke multiple times to stop disrupting the investigation. She was standing outside in the driveway and continuing to say “he pulled a gun on me” and “he pulled a fu*king gun on me,” loudly. While I was on the front porch talking to [VICTIM #1], she told me the mark on Brooke’s arm was from Brooke falling over due to her intoxication. She and Slayton both said Brooke was swinging on Slayton after she followed [VICTIM #1] into the house at one point, but he declined to press charges.

Brooke continued using loud profanity and claiming Slayton pulled a gun on her, although the investigation showed she arrived at the residence uninvited, highly intoxicated, and belligerent and the other party denied ever showing a gun. At one point, while I was speaking with [VICTIM #1] on the front porch and Brooke was next to her car in the driveway, [VICTIM #1] said it did not matter if Slayton did have a gun, it was their house, Brooke yelled out “It don’t matter if it is your house, b*tch, he can’t fu*king pull a gun on anybody!”

Multiple times during the investigation, [VICTIM #1] expressed concern over her neighbors becoming disturbed by the loud scene Brooke was causing, and I saw her concern to be legitimate due to the close proximity of other homes and the time of morning this was.

Slayton’s grandmother showed up at the house to pick him up and get him away from the situation, at which point Brooke yelled out about me letting him drive off after she was alleging he pulled a gun on her and yelled out “fu*k this!”

At this time, due to Brooke’s multiple profane outbursts while intoxicated, after being told to act maturely or she would be arrested, I placed her under arrest for public drunkenness. Her mother picked up her vehicle from the residence.

At the request of [VICTIM #1], I issued Brooke a criminal trespass warning from her residence.

I transported [BROOKE] to the PCSO Jail and turned her over to booking staff.

[End of Narrative]