Woman charged with food stamp fraud after allegedly using missing daughter’s identity
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- Add ARY News on Google AAResize A Nashville mother who collected food stamp benefits under her missing daughter’s name nearly nine years after the teenager disappeared has been arrested.
- Jodie “Brooke” Anderson Went Missing in 2017
- Brooke, then 18, was reported missing from her mom’s vehicle by Anderson, on Aug. 9, 2017.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize A Nashville mother who collected food stamp benefits under her missing daughter’s name nearly nine years after the teenager disappeared has been arrested. She’s charged with felony food stamp fraud.
Shannon Anderson, 51, of Nashville, was arrested in the early hours of the morning of Saturday, May 27, 2026 and charged with felony food stamp fraud by Metro Nashville Police in connection with using her daughter, Jodie “Brooke” Anderson’s name on government food stamps.
Anderson has since been arrested on seven charges, which include sex offender registry violations, food stamp fraud, food stamp and drug charges and was being held at the Nashville Sheriff’s Office in lieu of bonds totaling $22,000.