American Fork Police Department Says It Is Not Seeking Ben Schneider
Ben Schneider was jailed in Utah County after the american fork police department said he now faces stalking, criminal trespass, targeted residential picketing and disorderly conduct charges tied to his online campaign over a $200,000 Star Wars LEGO collection. Schneider, known to millions of streaming fans as Reckless Ben, has been pushing the dispute online for months.
The case turns a consignment fight that started in Oregon in 2023 into a criminal matter in Utah. Bricks & Minifigs corporate lawyers have described Schneider’s videos as a coordinated, viral extortion campaign, while the American Fork Police Department said it is not currently seeking him and there are no active warrants.
Utah County Charges
Schneider is facing multiple misdemeanor charges in Utah. The charges listed against him are stalking, criminal trespass, targeted residential picketing and disorderly conduct.
Those charges follow his confrontational videos from the store, the fake closure banner he plastered on the storefront and trips to the private Utah residences of Joshua Johnson and Brandon Best to serve legal papers. Schneider also said officers pulled over his car for a bogus two-hour drug search.
Salem LEGO Consignment
The dispute began when Bryan Mansell and his 83-year-old father, Eric, placed a Star Wars LEGO collection on consignment at a Bricks & Minifigs franchise in Salem, Oregon, in 2023. The collection included 780 unopened sets and 1,200 rare figures, and one Cloud City set was valued at over $10,000.
Bricks & Minifigs corporate headquarters later repossessed the Salem location from Chrystal Law and Ben Gorman over a $175,000 debt. The company changed the building locks and installed new managers Johnson and Best.
Bricks & Minifigs Response
Ammon McNeff and other corporate executives denied any wrongdoing or theft. The company said the consignment deal violated company guidelines and was never authorized by management, and court filings claimed that Law might have secretly sold off the items herself without reimbursing the family.
Bricks & Minifigs also said it tracked down a small portion of bricks worth between $2,000 and $5,000 that could possibly be related to the inventory. The Mansell family refused to take back those bricks, and a GoFundMe for the family’s legal expenses had cleared $10,000.
Schneider said in a recent update that he has officially fled to Mexico. The dispute now sits between the Utah charges, the Oregon consignment fight and the company’s denial of theft, with the American Fork Police Department saying it is not currently seeking him and that there are no active warrants.
