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This is the plain-language edition of the police-report post. Same facts, none of the citations. Every claim is stated again on the cited edition, with the report and the dates linked.
A family handed a LEGO collection to a Bricks and Minifigs store to sell for them. Sets did not come back. The son who took up chasing them started calling the store to ask whether they were still on the shelves, and the people answering the phone started hanging up on him. In April 2025, the store called the police on him, saying he might be about to lead an attack on the shop. An officer looked into it, found no real threat, and warned the man to stop calling. The case was closed. The collection still had not come back, and the man told the officer what the other option would cost him: seventy thousand dollars.
This was not new to the Keizer police. The April 2025 report says so itself. The officer writes that the man, Bryan Mansell, is upset because the previous store owner scammed him, and notes that another officer had already looked into a case about it the year before. What that earlier case was about, in the report’s own summary: some of Bryan’s consignment LEGO sets were not returned to him.
The collection was his father’s, left with the store in 2023. The report calls them Bryan’s sets because Bryan is the one who chased them. So it is now written down in a police file: sets went in to be sold, and they did not come back. Then the store changed owners. The problem did not change owners. He kept calling the store that had the collection, asking where it was.
On April 11, 2025, the man running the store, Brandon Best, called the police to report that Mansell was making threats against the store by phone and online. And he passed on something scarier, which had not come from Mansell and had not come from him either. He said he had been contacted by the loss prevention team at the company, the franchise headquarters, telling him that Bryan was possibly going to be leading an attack on the store that night.
Read that again. The head office runs a loss prevention team. That team was watching a private LEGO group on Facebook. And it took what it saw there and warned a store owner that a specific named customer might come attack his shop that evening.
Then the officer actually looked at it. The post was in that private Facebook group. There was no time given. And the line about the store had not been written by Mansell at all. Someone else, unidentified, had replied to a post of Bryan’s with something along the lines of: lets get the store tonight.
Mansell told the officer the same story eleven days later. He had posted asking what he should do about getting his LEGO back, and a stranger replied that he should just go take his things. He said he never had any intention of doing that, because he likes his job too much. And the officer wrote, that same night, that he would drive past the store to check on it but that there did not appear to be a direct threat that anything was going to happen.
A company warning one of its stores about a threat it thinks is real is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. What the record shows is what happened to the warning when an officer looked at it: a stranger’s comment under a customer’s post became “leading an attack on the store,” and then it became nothing at all.
What was left was the phone calls. Mansell told the officer he had never threatened anybody, that he called the store the way any customer might, to ask about his own property, and that when whoever answered realized it was him, they hung up on him. He said his own lawyer had tried the store several times and got hung up on too.
He asked what the police were doing about getting his LEGO back, saying it had been stolen from him through the store. He was told that was the other officer’s case. And when he was told the answer was to sue, he gave the number that ends the conversation: going to civil court would cost him seventy thousand dollars.
The case ended like this. Closed, inactive. Bryan warned for telephone harassment, and told not to call the store’s business line again. On the paperwork, the victim is the business. The suspect is the man whose collection the store did not give back.
Put it in one line. His property does not come back. The police say it is not a crime, it is a civil matter. Civil court costs seventy thousand dollars. The store hangs up when he calls. And the one thing he had left, calling to ask, is now the thing he has been formally warned to stop doing.
One last thing, and it is about the calendar rather than what is in the report. It is dated April 11, 2025.
Bricks and Minifigs has published its own timeline of this whole saga, and that timeline points to a Collectors Weekly podcast from April 16, 2025 as one of its sources. By the company’s own reckoning, that is when this story first reached the public. And the documentary the company has blamed for the harassment of its stores went up on May 21, 2026, thirteen months after this report.
So the earliest written report of threats against this store comes five days before the first public coverage the company itself points to, and more than a year before the documentary. And it is not about a stranger who got worked up by something online. It is about a customer asking a store to give him his own property back.
To be fair, and this matters. A warning from police is not a conviction and not a finding of anything. Mansell was never charged, and nothing here says he committed a crime. Nothing here says Brandon Best did either. A store owner who gets told by his own head office that someone may attack his shop that night has every reason to call the police, and the officer took it seriously and drove by to check. A company having a loss prevention team that warns its stores about threats is a normal safety practice, and the fact that this particular warning fell apart does not make it wrong to have made it. Mansell says he never threatened anyone. Best reported that he did. The officer wrote down that he found no direct threat, closed the case, and never settled that disagreement, and neither do we. This is also not the only police report in this story, and we are not pretending it is: it is a report about phone calls and a Facebook comment, and nothing more. What it does show is small and it is right there on the page: a family’s LEGO sets went into a store and did not come out, a police file has said so since 2024, and by April 2025 the man asking after them had been warned to stop asking, with a seventy thousand dollar courtroom as his only other option. The cited edition links the report, so you can read it yourself.
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