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This is the plain-language edition of BAM had Reckless Ben charged with trespassing in a hallway it does not own. Same facts, same open questions, none of the record citations. Every claim below is stated again on the cited edition, with the parcel numbers, the warrant, and the building’s own rulebook attached.
In December, Bricks and Minifigs had Reckless Ben charged with a crime: trespassing at its Provo office. The whole case comes down to something you can hold in one hand. Which side of a glass door was he standing on? That is it. That is the case. And the reason that small question gets big fast is that the hallway on the other side of that door does not belong to the company. Neither does the office. Bricks and Minifigs owns nothing in that building. It rents, from a law firm that also runs the building. One ground rule before we start: none of this has been decided by a court, Ben is presumed innocent, and the property questions on this page are open questions. We are going to be honest about what we do not know. Here is what the public records say, in plain words.
The company’s Provo headquarters is one suite in a small four-unit office building. The county’s property records, which anyone can look up, show that one owner holds three of those four units: the suite Bricks and Minifigs sits in, the suite next door, and the entire top floor. And the county’s own deed signatures tie that owner to the law firm that works upstairs, on the floor it owns, through a family trust of one of the firm’s name partners. So the company’s landlord is a law firm.
And the firm does more than own three suites. It runs the building. The building has a recorded rulebook, the kind every condominium has, and that rulebook puts all the shared space, the hallways and the lobby and the stairs, under an owners’ association, and hands control of it to the association’s board. The board is three people, and they are the three lawyers whose names are on the firm’s own door: MacArthur, Heder, and Metler. So the landlord and the people who run the building’s hallways are the same three lawyers.
Now the part that made us sit up. In the middle of the lawsuits last summer, the two McNeff brothers who run the company created a brand-new company to hold the Bricks and Minifigs trademarks. The address they wrote down for it was that same law firm’s suite, upstairs, and Ammon McNeff signed the paperwork himself. We want to be careful here. We cannot prove the firm is their lawyer, and the lawyer who shows up for them in court is a different person. But look at the shape. The family rents its office from a law firm that runs the building, and keeps one of its own companies inside that firm’s office.
On December 10, Ben spoke with Ammon McNeff at that building. That conversation is the trespass charge. The detective’s sworn statement tells it as an indoor story: Ben only left the office once the owner walked away into a different room. The company gave police video of Ben entering the office. And on the strength of that story, a judge signed a warrant that reached the contents of Ben’s entire Google account.
But watch the video. The two men are not inside anything. They are standing in the building’s hallway. Marble floor. Elevator. A drinking fountain. The company’s glass door, with its holiday decorations, is right beside them. A reader on the Reckless Ben subreddit matched that hallway to an old leasing flyer for this exact building. And the “different room” the owner walks away into? On the video, that is him stepping back through the glass door, off the hallway, into the office.
Here is why that matters. The hallway is not the company’s. The building’s own maps, and its rulebook, put the hallway outside every suite, the way the hallway of an apartment building belongs to the building and not to any one apartment. It is shared space, and the rulebook says the owners’ board runs it. You already know who is on that board. The three partners of the law firm.
The charge is trespassing after notice. In plain words: someone with authority over the place warned you, and you stayed or came back anyway. The charging papers themselves spell out where a warning can come from: the owner, or someone with apparent authority to act for the owner, or a fence, or a posted sign. There was no fence. There was no sign. No letter. The police tried to reach Ben themselves and could not, so no warning came from them. Whatever warning there was, someone at the company spoke it, the day before he came back.
Inside the company’s own office, no problem. A business can tell you to leave its office, and that warning is good. But out in the shared hallway? We read the building’s rulebook. It gives the power to clear that hallway to the owners’ board, the three partners, and not to a tenant. Nothing on file hands that power to Bricks and Minifigs. A board can hand a tenant that power in a private deal that never gets filed, so we cannot be sure it did not. But on paper, the authority over that hallway belongs to the three partners.
So there are two ways to read this, and we are not choosing. Reading one: the company had no power over the hallway. Then there was no valid warning to break out there. And notice how the sworn story said the whole thing happened inside the office, the one room where the company’s power is beyond question. The room the company’s own video says it did not happen in. Reading two: the company did have power over the hallway. But only one place it could have come from: the building’s board. The three partners. The same law firm that rents the company its office, runs its building, and houses the family’s trademark company.
And either way, there is a strange quiet spot in the record. Read the sworn account start to finish and the landlord never shows up. The company asks the men to leave. The company hands over the video. The company’s owner calls the detective to press charges. The one party the records put in charge of that hallway, the three partners on the board, is simply not in the story. Maybe the power was handed over in a deal that was never filed. Maybe the step got skipped. All we can tell you is that in this building, the landlord and the tenant are not exactly strangers, and nobody seems to have asked.
The McNeff family’s other business, Legally Mine, sells one product: arrangements built so nobody can tell who really controls what. That is the pitch. Now watch them run it on themselves. The company holds an office it does not own, in a building run by the firm that keeps the family’s trademark company inside it. And their trespass charge needs a court to answer, cleanly, who controlled a hallway. We do not know how that question comes out. We do know who built the question.
To be fair, and this matters. Renting your office is normal. A law firm owning its own building, renting the other units, and sitting on the owners’ board is normal. Registering a company at your lawyer’s office happens every day. None of it breaks any rule by itself. A tenant sometimes really is given power over shared space, and the building’s rulebook shows no such grant to Bricks and Minifigs, but a private unfiled deal could exist, so this stays an open question, and a court may well decide the warning was valid. We are not saying the family ordered the police or the prosecutor around. We are saying the building this charge lives in is owned and run by the same law firm the company rents from and keeps a company inside, and the charging story never mentioned any of that. Ben is presumed innocent. Readers on the Reckless Ben subreddit did the first digging, the LUS broadcast argued the law, and the cited edition of this page carries every record, with the parcel numbers, so you can pull them yourself.
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