Timeline

Name: Timeline · Where Is My Lego
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Chronological record, 2023–2026. Filter by status or search. Each entry is labeled as documented (Confirmed), a contested contention (Allegation), or otherwise Reported.

42 of 42 events

~1999–2000 onwardReported
Bryan Mansell and his father (reported ~83) begin collecting LEGO Star Wars, eventually ~780 sets and ~1,200 minifigures (incl. a sealed 10123 Cloud City).
Brick Fanatics
~Feb 2023Reported
Chrystal Law-Gorman and her husband Benjamin ("Ben") Gorman purchase the Salem-Keizer Bricks & Minifigs franchise (Chrystal had reportedly managed the store beforehand). They are the original owner-operators before BAM corporate's later takeover. ⚠ The "Feb 2023" month is single-sourced; the ~21-month operating window (to Nov 2024) is well-attested.
Brick Fanatics; Techdirt; Salem Business Journal
Nov 22, 2023Confirmed
Mansell and franchise operator Chrystal Law-Gorman sign a consignment agreement: store keeps 35% of gross sales (65% to the family), family paid monthly by the 15th, unsold sets remain family property.
Salem Business Journal; Brick Fanatics
Nov 14, 2024Allegation
BAM corporate issues a reported "Notice of Immediate Termination" and repossesses the Salem/Keizer store from franchisees Chrystal & Benjamin Gorman, citing alleged financial defaults (unpaid purchase-price/APA installments, delinquent royalties). The Gormans counter that BAM breached first by never transferring the store bank account and lease. Store later tied to Baker Bricks LLC (Brandon Best, Joshua Johnson).
Techdirt; Salem Business Journal; Sportskeeda; Dexerto
Late 2024 – early 2026Allegation
New operators allegedly refuse to return unsold consigned inventory or honor the contract, treating it as store property.
Sportskeeda; Wikipedia
~Dec 10, 2025Reported
Months before the viral video, Schneider and an associate visit Bricks & Minifigs' corporate office in Provo, Utah — conduct that later underlies a separate criminal case (see the Apr 7, 2026 row) and is also recited in BAM's civil complaint. BAM alleges they entered and filmed without permission using concealed devices, refused to leave when directed, and demanded $200,000 under threat of reputational harm (an ALLEGATION, drawn from BAM's complaint); Schneider's side frames his broader effort as investigating the missing-collection dispute. ⚠ The granular conduct details trace to BAM's complaint via a partisan community mirror; KSL independently reports the Dec 10, 2025 corporate-office date/location as the basis of the Provo charges.
KSL (criminal-charges report); ⚠ BAM civil complaint via community mirror (bamsucks.com)
Early 2026Reported
Mansell reportedly obtains a default judgment in Oregon (small-claims) after non-response; follow-up civil action pursued.
BAM statement; Dexerto
~Mar 2026Reported
The Gormans file their own suit against BAM Franchising over the 2024 store seizure (reported grounds: breach of contract, conversion, defamation, civil conspiracy); they later launch a GoFundMe ("They Took Our LEGO Store & Life Savings"). Separate from the BAM-v-Schneider action.
Techdirt; Salem Business Journal
Mar 8–11, 2026Reported
Schneider travels to American Fork, Utah; Joshua Johnson reportedly contacts AFPD ~4 times reporting conduct he described as harassment. Schneider says he went to serve civil papers.
ABC4; American Fork Citizen; Salt Lake Tribune
Mar 10, 2026Confirmed
First arrest. Schneider charged with stalking, targeted residential picketing, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass (complainant: Johnson). ⚠ Sources conflict on the date: Wikipedia/Dexerto say Mar 10; American Fork Citizen places both arrests on Mar 11; KSL/East Idaho News say he was "charged March 27." The fact of two arrests is not in dispute. ⚠ Two cases, not one: per KSL the American Fork (4th-District) case is stalking (class A) + targeted residential picketing (class B), charged Mar 27; the disorderly conduct and trespass counts are a separate Provo Justice Court case tied to a Dec 10, 2025 corporate-office visit (see the Apr 7, 2026 row).
American Fork Citizen; Salt Lake Tribune; Wikipedia; KSL
Mar 11, 2026Confirmed
Second probable-cause affidavit seeks an additional stalking charge. A judge approves a search warrant for the Airbnb where Schneider stayed (affidavit cited an overheard conversation about "possible stolen Lego").
The Express Tribune; American Fork Citizen
Evening Mar 11, 2026Confirmed
Second arrest at the Airbnb; Schneider booked into Utah County Jail. ~4 associates detained (incl. Sheldon Norcross ⚠ single-sourced — on a FaceTime call with Schneider when AFPD arrived; his phone was seized), all but Schneider released.
American Fork Citizen; Yahoo/In Touch; Kotaku
(warrant return)Confirmed
Search-warrant return reportedly states "No items seized" — no stolen LEGO recovered.
The Express Tribune
Apr 7, 2026Reported
Second criminal case (Provo). Schneider is charged in Provo Justice Court with disorderly conduct (class C misdemeanor) and trespassing (class B misdemeanor), based on the Dec 10, 2025 corporate-office conduct (see that row) — a matter separate from the American Fork case. So the four charges often lumped together actually split across two courts: the American Fork 4th-District case (stalking, class A + targeted residential picketing, class B; charged Mar 27) and this Provo case (disorderly conduct + trespass). ⚠ A community-circulated docket gives the Provo case no. 261000376, but that number appears only on a partisan mirror / a YouTube title — cross-check Utah XChange; the charges, date, and court are per KSL (single mainstream outlet network — KSL.com + KSL NewsRadio).
KSL; KSL NewsRadio; ⚠ docket no. via community mirror (bamsucks.com)
May 21, 2026Confirmed
Schneider publishes "I tracked down the thief who stole $200,000 of LEGO" (reported ~3.1M views in two weeks). Story goes mainstream.
Know Your Meme; Primetimer
May 21, 2026Confirmed
BAM posts first community note on the Salem store situation.
bricksandminifigs.com
May 21, 2026 (registry filings; surfaced Jun 10)Confirmed
"Legally Mine" renamed in the Utah corporate registry (background — the McNeff-linked asset-protection firm; not a party to the suit). A filed amendment renames Legally Mine, LLC → "LM Oldco, LLC" (entity 7228976-0160): the state stamp reads "Filed On May 21, 2026 04:49 PM" — the same calendar day Schneider's first video posted — and it is signed by managing member Daniel J. McNeff (⚠ the handwritten signature date appears to read "5/7/26," i.e. possibly signed ~two weeks before filing). On May 29, 2026 two assumed names (DBAs) — "LEGALLY MINE LLC" and "LEGALLY MINE TAX AND ACCOUNTING LLC" — were registered, owned by Centra Wealth Solutions, LLC, a separate Utah LLC formed Apr 6, 2026 (before the May 21 video and the May 27 lawsuit, though after the March 2026 arrests) with no McNeff among its registry principals. The records state no reason for the changes and nothing in them ties the filings to this case. ⚠ The viral community version is wrong on two points: the May 29 registrations are assumed names, not "2 new LLCs," and they belong to Centra, not the McNeff entity; any causal "reaction to the video" reading — or the contrary "sale already in motion" reading the Apr 6/May 7 dates might suggest — is speculation, not record.
Utah business registry (entity nos. 7228976-0160, 14701446-0151, 14701452-0151, 14681035-0160; checked 2026-06-10); amendment filing no. 2605221009625B (image via r/RecklessBen, verified against the live registry)
Late May 2026Confirmed
"Mormon Mafia" trends; Central Utah 911 reports a call surge (jumped ~157→424 calls in a 6–10am window — ⚠ weekday disputed: ABC4 says Saturday, Dexerto says Sunday May 31; the call figures match across both); unrelated Salem (Utah) PD posts a "zero involvement" disclaimer; AFPD received a wave of negative online reviews referencing the case (a coordinated "review-bomb" is asserted online but not confirmed by reporting).
ABC4; Dexerto; Primetimer
May 26, 2026Allegation
Chrystal Law-Gorman posts publicly (TikTok) alleging the franchisor "illegally seized" her business under threat of police action without compensation.
The Express Tribune; Primetimer
May 27, 2026Confirmed
BAM Franchising et al. file a verified civil complaint in Utah Fourth District Court (case no. 260402353 — since confirmed by both the signed TRO and the Jun 8 service order; an earlier "260400253" rendering appears to have been a community-mirror error) — 13 causes of action. Secondary reporting characterizes the suit as alleging a coordinated "harassment and extortion campaign" framed under a civil RICO / pattern-of-unlawful-activity theory; the signed May 28 TRO itself recites the claims as including "Utah RICO violations", defamation per se, civil stalking, trespass, civil conspiracy, tortious interference, intentional infliction of emotional distress, injurious falsehood, trade disparagement, false light, and nuisance (⚠ the TRO copy is community-archived — cross-check Utah XChange).
Dexerto; Brick Fanatics; Wikipedia; signed TRO (May 28, 2026)
May 28, 2026Confirmed
The court signs the "Temporary Restraining Order and Notice of Preliminary Injunction Hearing" (Tier 3) — /s/ Tony F. Graf Jr., 5:25 PM (the judge's name, previously secondary-only, is now confirmed from the surfaced signed order; the search-warrant judge was separately Roger W. Griffin). Entered ex parte, it restrains the defendants and anyone acting in concert from threats, publishing doxxing information, approaching within "not less than 1,000 yards" of plaintiffs' locations or employee/franchisee homes after notice, impersonation, signage implying theft from elderly persons, soliciting "undercover agents," and fabricated instruments; orders preservation of all footage and communications; and — clause (k) — requires the "Publications" and related videos to be "immediately removed and/or taken down from any online streaming platform." No bond was required (Utah R. Civ. P. 65A(d)); the order remains in effect until the court rules on the preliminary injunction, whose hearing date was left blank in the order (later reported for Jun 22 per KSL — ⚠ Dexerto says Jun 30; see that row). Notably, no provision expressly names the GoFundMe or fundraising. ⚠ Sourced to a community-archived copy of the signed order (partisan host) — cross-check Utah XChange. Same day, BAM issues a detailed official statement denying theft/wrongdoing.
Signed TRO, Case 260402353 (May 28, 2026); Brick Fanatics; bricksandminifigs.com
May 29, 2026Confirmed
AFPD releases body-cam footage + news release; Chief Cameron Paul posts a ~26-minute video statement. CEO Ammon McNeff appears in a livestream interview, apologizes to the family, offers mediation.
ABC4; The Express Tribune
May 29, 2026Confirmed
BAM submits an official takedown request to Patreon seeking removal of Schneider's Patreon page. The package reportedly attached the verified complaint (with exhibits), a request for immediate content removal pursuant to the TRO, and the TRO / preliminary-injunction motion — i.e., an attempt to enforce the injunction against the funding platform.
Dexerto; Kotaku; Brick Fanatics; Sportskeeda; Primetimer
~May 30–31, 2026Confirmed
GoFundMe for Mansell surpasses $100K (later reported higher). ⚠ Figures vary by snapshot/source as the total climbed — e.g. ~$128K from ~4,800 donors at one point, $131K+ from ~5,000 at another; anchor any figure to a timestamp. By ~Jun 3–4, 2026 it is reportedly over $300K, and by the morning of Jun 8, 2026 reportedly over $445K (donations to be placed in a legal trust). ⚠ Both higher figures are single-outlet (>$300K from The Express Tribune; >$445K from Dallas Express, echoed by Wikipedia citing that same article) — Reported, not multi-sourced CONFIRMED; a separate ~$350K–$382K figure is single-sourced and unverified.
The Express Tribune; Dallas Express
~Jun 1, 2026Confirmed
Separate AFPD matter surfaces: Det. Bronson Kitchen apologizes to a driver over a contested traffic stop (distinct incident, frequently cited alongside).
American Fork Citizen
~Jun 1–2, 2026Confirmed
Schneider releases a follow-up video on the arrests; says he fled to Mexico citing a new arrest warrant. (⚠ Reporting clusters Jun 1–2; date approximate.)
UNILAD Tech; Kotaku
Jun 2, 2026Confirmed
Patreon CEO Jack Conte publicly refuses BAM's takedown request in a video ("Take Down Notification: Reckless Ben's Patreon Account"), displaying the submitted court documents and saying Patreon's trust & safety team "determined that Bricks & Minifigs can stuff it. We are keeping Ben's page up. And if Bricks & Minifigs doesn't like that, they can sue us." Schneider's Patreon page stays up. ⚠ One loose summary dates the video Jun 3; specific reporting puts it Tuesday, Jun 2.
Dexerto; Kotaku; Brick Fanatics; Sportskeeda; Primetimer
Jun 4, 2026Confirmed
BAM announces it has "parted ways" with Salem franchise owners Joshua Johnson and Brandon Best — framed as a mutual separation — and is permanently closing the Salem, Oregon store, citing "a devastating social media campaign." Announced via a BusinessWire press release and a company blog post (the closure itself does not drop them as named plaintiffs in the Utah suit).
BusinessWire; Dexerto; ABC4; KSL; bricksandminifigs.com
Jun 4, 2026Allegation
In the same statements BAM (a) says an investigation found "significant evidence of gross negligence" by the previous owner (Chrystal Law-Gorman), framing Best/Johnson as incoming franchisees who inherited the problem; (b) re-values the collection at $95,000–$100,000, calling the ~$200,000 figure "simply the promotional value" used for the Nov 2023 public viewing (the disputed-value framing — keep ~$200K as family/promotional and this as BAM's number); (c) casts the consignment as an "unauthorized and private consignment side-deal" that predated Best/Johnson, struck with former franchisee Law-Gorman. CEO Ammon McNeff says BAM is "prepared to discuss dropping the lawsuit against" Mansell, will review POS data to make him "made whole monetarily," and offers him "whatever Star Wars LEGO was or remains in the Salem store." ⚠ BAM frames this as seeking a "mutual and positive resolution" — no source shows Mansell accepting, the suit being dropped, or a settlement reached; the offer is unilateral and litigation remains pending. ⚠ BAM's "unauthorized / corporate never knew" framing conflicts with Techdirt's Jun 2 report that corporate verbally told Law-Gorman it would "take on the consignment liability."
BusinessWire; Dexerto; Geeks+Gamers; KSL; Techdirt
Jun 4–9, 2026Confirmed
Harassment spills over to uninvolved BAM franchises. The independently owned Bricks & Minifigs in Sacramento, CA (Pocket neighborhood) — no role in the Oregon dispute — reports a flood of threatening calls, emails, and messages; GM Dylan Anderson says the store has filed multiple police reports with Sacramento PD ("There are active police reports") and announces it will close for about a week (⚠ from Jun 12 per CBS Sacramento vs. the "week of Jun 13" per the Sacramento Bee and KCRA; aiming to reopen Jun 19). Anderson tells KCRA some of the calls and emails "have been death threats" — KCRA carries that in its own headline; no police finding backs it (see the conflict next). ⚠ The police-report picture conflicts: per the Sacramento Bee, regarding calls the store made on May 23 & 30, Sacramento PD said "no direct threats were made" and that no official report was filed in the department's online system — the store's "active police reports" account and the department's do not line up; neither is a finding about the later threats. A San Luis Obispo, CA location also reported calls about the controversy — described as non-threatening and ended "peacefully" (KSBW, a KCRA sister station); central-Ohio stores reported "hate"/backlash and decreased sales (Columbus Dispatch, Jun 9, which also reports BAM corporate citing bomb threats against stores nationally); and BAM corporate's own community note (May 21, updated May 27) had already cited "direct threats and doxxing of local staff and their families" — a concrete spillover/public-safety harm of the pile-on (cf. the Central Utah 911 surge).
FOX40 (Jun 4); CBS Sacramento (Jun 5); KCRA (Jun 5); Sacramento Bee (Jun 6); KSBW (Jun 8, San Luis Obispo); The Columbus Dispatch (Jun 9, Ohio); BAM "Note to Our Community" (May 21/27)
Jun 4, 2026 (post date; surfaced in wider coverage ~Jun 10)Confirmed
Supplier fallout — Minifigs.me ends its BAM relationship. The UK-based custom-minifigure maker Minifigs.me (posting as "Custom Minifigs") publicly announces it is ending its long-running supplier relationship with BAM: owners Nick and Caroline write that after the "serious allegations … by YouTuber Reckless Ben" they "can no longer continue to do this in good conscience," calling it "an extremely costly decision" — the BAM franchise had been their biggest combined customer — while noting many ordinary BAM store owners "have nothing to do with these allegations." ⚠ The breadth of any wider supplier "exodus" is unestablished: a factually.co fact-check (researched Jun 5) found supplier pull-aways undocumented in its own source set (cite as skeptical, not support).
Minifigs.me / Custom Minifigs (Facebook post, Jun 4, 2026; mirrored on Instagram); Kotaku (Jun 10 recap); cf. factually.co (skeptical)
Jun 7, 2026Confirmed
Attorney John H. Bryan ("The Civil Rights Lawyer") publishes Part 2, interviewing Ben's driver/associate Tyler Shaw (Part 1, ~Jun 2, was Schneider himself) and presenting the unredacted AFPD body-cam footage. Shaw was cited at a Mar 8 stop and flagged for suspected impairment Mar 9, but passed a .00 breath test and a K-9 search found nothing; Bryan/Shaw allege the stops/AFPD conduct were pretextual. ⚠ This archive excludes the unredacted body-cam tranche on no-PII grounds; only the interview is cataloged.
The Civil Rights Lawyer (Part 2); American Fork Citizen; UNILAD Tech
Jun 8, 2026 (disputed)Reported
Schneider reportedly scheduled to appear in court. ⚠ Sources conflict: Wikipedia says June 8; KSL & East Idaho News say the next hearing is July 1, 2026.
Wikipedia; KSL; East Idaho News
Jun 8, 2026Confirmed
In the civil suit, Judge Tony F. Graf Jr. grants BAM's ex parte motion for alternative service ("Order Granting Ex Parte Motion Regarding Alternative Service," Tier 3), letting the plaintiffs serve the defendants — Benjamin Paul Schneider / Reckless Ben LLC, Bryan Mansell, and Victor Nguyen — by alternative means after personal service was not effected. The order's caption confirms BAM Franchising, Inc., a Delaware corporation (et al.) v. Schneider et al. and case no. 260402353. This shows the suit proceeding against Mansell at the service stage — notwithstanding BAM's Jun 4 statement that it was "prepared to discuss dropping" the Mansell claim (no dismissal of Mansell appears on the record). ⚠ Sourced to a single court-document image of the signed order supplied to this archive; the underlying case/caption/number are independently corroborated (DocumentCloud complaint; Dexerto; Wikipedia), but cross-check the order itself against Utah XChange.
Utah 4th Dist. Order, Case 260402353 (Jun 8, 2026); corroborating case context: DocumentCloud complaint; Dexerto; Wikipedia
Jun 9, 2026Confirmed
Schneider posts a short video ("bad news") announcing he will not release "Part 3" of his investigation and cannot publicly discuss the case (he says the order bars him from even naming BAM), citing the May 28 TRO / pending civil suit — effectively halting his public investigation. He characterizes the stakes as: violating the order would put him in jail, cost him his own suit, and divert the Mansell GoFundMe to BAM — ⚠ his framing; the factual anchor is the complaint's request for an accounting / disgorgement of profits, reportedly sweeping in crowdfunding revenue (a requested remedy, not one a court has granted). ⚠ No source shows a contempt finding — reporting describes a speech-restricting TRO and a scheduled hearing, not adjudicated contempt.
Kotaku; UNILAD Tech; Geeks+Gamers; Brick Fanatics; (disgorgement) The Express Tribune
Jun 9, 2026Allegation
The GoFundMe for the Mansell family ("Help Bryan Recover His Stolen LEGO Collection," organizer Ben Schneider) becomes inaccessible — the page, live and showing $442,458 of a $450K goal in a Jun 8 archived snapshot (and still live in a Jun 9 ~14:14 UTC snapshot), returns GoFundMe's generic "Page not found" (HTTP 404; a Jun 10 ~09:34 UTC archived capture recorded the 404). Next-day media noted it: UNILAD Tech (Jun 10) described the fund "briefly vanishing"; a second UNILAD piece put the fund's reported peak at ~$454,151 and floated the candidate explanations — a GoFundMe Trust-&-Safety takedown under the TRO, the page being frozen amid the proceedings, or the organizer removing it himself — while noting it was unclear which; and an MSN-syndicated piece asked whether BAM "got the Mansell family GoFundMe taken down." (Kotaku's same-day Part-3 coverage still described the fund as having reached "over $450,000", with no mention of a takedown — takedown coverage stayed thin.) A generic 404 cannot by itself distinguish removal by GoFundMe/court from deactivation, a paused campaign, or a slug change. Who removed it, and why, remains unconfirmed: community posts (r/RecklessBen) and a single commentator (LegacyKillaHD on X) attribute it to the May 28 TRO and predict BAM will pursue the funds — but that causal claim is social-media-sourced only, and BAM's reach for the donations is a requested disgorgement remedy (see the Jun 9 row above), not an order a court has granted — indeed the signed TRO contains no provision expressly naming the fundraiser (see the May 28 row). The outage proved temporary — the page was back online ~24 hours later (see the Jun 10 row).
GoFundMe page (404, Jun 9); Wayback (live $442,458 Jun 8; live Jun 9 14:14 UTC; 404 Jun 10 09:34 UTC); r/RecklessBen; LegacyKillaHD (X); UNILAD Tech (Jun 10)
Jun 9, 2026Confirmed
At a regularly scheduled American Fork City Council meeting, multiple members of the public spoke in support of Schneider and criticized the American Fork Police Department's handling of the matter, calling for an independent review/investigation of the department's conduct. The meeting ended without the city announcing any formal or independent investigation into AFPD. ⚠ A council member reportedly expressed appreciation for local police and noted a separate recent incident affecting their own family (single substantive source — Dexerto + the meeting video; not in the second outlet). The comments arose during public comment at a meeting whose agenda also covered the FY2027 budget.
American Fork City (official) — "June 9, 2026 AF City Council Meeting" (YouTube Vrr9boJhEhw); Dexerto; The Express Tribune
Jun 10, 2026Reported
The Mansell GoFundMe is back online. Schneider announces it in a YouTube community post — "GoFundMe is back up! Maybe some day I'll be allowed to talk about what's going on behind the scenes. It's crazy." — implying (without stating) a legal constraint on explaining the ~24-hour outage. Checked directly the same day (~18:00 UTC), the URL resolves again (HTTP 200) with the campaign active at $465,211 raised of a $500,000 goal from ~17,095 donations — i.e. the total kept climbing past the pre-outage $442K, and the goal had been raised from $450K to $500K on Jun 8 per the page's own goal history (a platform-automatic raise — the entry is recorded with a SYSTEM source — not an organizer action). UNILAD Tech (Jun 10) corroborates the round trip, describing the fund as "briefly vanishing but appearing to be back in action." ⚠ Neither GoFundMe nor any party has publicly explained why the page vanished or what restored it — the TRO attribution for the takedown remains social-media-sourced (see the row above), and no source ties the restoration to any court action. In post-Jun-10 coverage, BAM publicly denied taking it down (statement to Dexerto: "At no point did we make any legal attempt to seize the Mansell family GoFundMe account or any other GoFundMe account, nor did we ever approve consignments as an authorized sales process") — but that denial does not explain the outage, leaving the cause still unexplained; ⚠ the denial is single-origin to Dexerto (other outlets/Wikipedia relay it), and it is contested (cf. Patreon CEO Jack Conte's reported account of a BAM removal demand, and the Gormans' consignment-contract rebuttal — both already recorded).
GoFundMe page (live, Jun 10); Reckless Ben YouTube community post (Jun 10, via r/RecklessBen); UNILAD Tech (Jun 10); Wayback CDX; Dexerto (BAM denial)
Jun 10, 2026Reported
Investigative YouTuber Coffeezilla publishes his full ~54-minute investigation, "I Found The $200,000 Missing Lego" (after interviewing BAM CEO Ammon McNeff, Reckless Ben, and the Gormans, and reviewing inventory/sales records from the parties). He frames the matter as driven more by record-keeping failures, compensation disputes, and legal conflict than a wholesale "theft": he estimates only ~$10,000–$20,000 of LEGO is truly "unexplained" ("estimated with bad records," his words), concludes Mansell could still be owed ~$50,000–$83,000 — which he says BAM "obviously should handle and make right" (the video is not an exoneration of BAM) — and pegs the collection's likely actual value around ~$107,000, well below the family's ~$200K figure (which remains family-valued, promotional, and disputed — Schneider himself tells Coffeezilla the $200K came from a walkthrough and "that press release went out before I had those full numbers… this is a nice even number that will grab attention"; ⚠ BAM has put the value lower still, ~$80K per the Columbus Dispatch). ⚠ These are Coffeezilla's own estimates, not court findings. In the same interview, BAM COO Matt McNeff points to in-store handover footage (ring/security cameras) from the Nov 14, 2024 ownership transfer (the outgoing Gorman owners → incoming owners Best/Johnson) to argue the new owners did not carry the Mansell sets out that night: McNeff says the footage shows incoming owner Brandon Best arrived in a rental car, with no U-Haul in the lot, which BAM offers as evidence the sets were not stolen by the incoming owners (BAM's contention — an unadjudicated ALLEGATION). ⚠ Coffeezilla disputes this — he says brightening the footage reveals a U-Haul outside the store that night, contradicting McNeff's "no U-Haul" account — though the significance stays inconclusive (BAM's explanation is that the U-Haul related to an unrelated camper/trailer; Coffeezilla flags timeline gaps and, "without more proof," reaches no concrete conclusion either way). Coffeezilla also states Mansell is being sued for ~$1.3 million "as part of a legal campaign against him and Reckless Ben and any of the associates," calls the suit against Mansell "ridiculous," and urges BAM to drop it. ⚠ The ~$1.3M is Coffeezilla's figure, single-origin to this video (the Jun 11 outlets summarize it, not an independent docket record); it attaches to the existing BAM-side suit, which KSL earlier summarized as seeking "over $300,000" (the figures do not cleanly reconcile — cross-check Utah XChange / the filed complaint).
Coffeezilla — "I Found The $200,000 Missing Lego" (YouTube VKfQkRbd15k, posted Jun 10, 2026 — title/date/length verified from the video metadata); The Express Tribune (story 2612574, Jun 11); UNILAD Tech (handover footage, Jun 11); UNILAD Tech ($1.3M suit, Jun 11); Dexerto (~$20K-missing / valuation, Jun 11); Nerdbeak ($1.3M = existing suit; U-Haul forensics, Jun 11)
Ongoing (as of Jun 11, 2026)Confirmed
Keizer (OR) investigation reviewed by Marion County DA; Salem store permanently closed (Jun 4); civil litigation continues with all parties still named, with a preliminary-injunction hearing reported for Jun 22, 2026 (⚠ conflicting press date — see the Jun 22 row); Schneider has halted his public investigation under the TRO (Jun 9); the family's GoFundMe vanished for ~24 hours (Jun 9–10, cause unexplained — see rows above) and is back online at $465K+ of a $500K goal; harassment has spilled over to uninvolved BAM franchises (a Sacramento store announced a week-long closure after threats; San Luis Obispo and central-Ohio stores also reported controversy-driven calls/backlash — see the Jun 4–9 row); no liability/guilt finding to date.
The Express Tribune; BusinessWire; KSL.com; Yelp listing; CBS Sacramento
Jun 16, 2026 (reported)Reported
Former Salem franchisees move to limit the TRO. The "Law-Gorman parties" — Chrystal Law(-Gorman), Benjamin Gorman, and BAMF Salem 1, LLC — reportedly file in the Utah civil case (No. 260402353) to intervene (for the limited purpose of challenging the order) and to modify or dissolve the May 28 TRO. They stress they are not defendants in the BAM-v-Schneider suit and are separately litigating against BAM Franchising over the 2024 Salem franchise termination; they argue the TRO is overbroad and restrains protected speech about their own dispute, and that it reaches them because a clause orders removal of publications that "in any way relate to the private legal dispute underlying this matter between Bryan and Chrystal." The filing reportedly asks the court to strike or narrow the takedown clause, clarify the order does not bind Law, Gorman, or BAMF Salem 1, and decline to enter a preliminary injunction of the same scope. The court had not ruled as of reporting (the Jun 22/Jun 30 PI hearing — see that row — is the likely venue). Commentary frames this as potentially clearing one obstacle to Schneider's withheld "Part 3" (see the Jun 9 "bad news" row) — characterization, not a court ruling; the motion does not ask the court to authorize Part 3. ⚠ Single-outlet (Dexerto); other coverage (e.g. Nerdbeak) echoes near-identical wording rather than independently reviewing the docket, and the motion itself was not accessible this pass — cross-check Utah XChange, and confirm whether the intervention and the dissolution are one motion or two.
Dexerto
Jun 22, 2026 (scheduled)Reported
Civil preliminary-injunction hearing in the BAM suit (Utah Fourth District Court, case no. 260402353, Judge Tony F. Graf Jr.; the TRO names the Provo courthouse): the court is to consider whether to extend the May 28 TRO for the duration of the litigation — per KSL, Schneider "will have an opportunity to present his side," his first since the TRO issued ex parte. Distinct from the criminal matter — his next criminal appearance is separately reported as Jul 1, 2026 (see the ⚠ Jun 8 row). The signed TRO left the hearing date blank, so the date rests on press reporting — ⚠ and it conflicts: KSL says Jun 22; Dexerto says a preliminary hearing "has been set for June 30." East Idaho News carries the Jun 22 date but is a syndication of the same KSL story, not independent corroboration.
KSL.com (Jun 4); East Idaho News (syndication); ⚠ Dexerto (Jun 30)