PRIMARY SOURCE Every date and clock time below is read from a held primary record: the Keizer police file (KZP24020132), the Provo search warrant (No. 3327741) and the American Fork search warrant (No. 3352981) themselves, and the Utah and Oregon court dockets. The reading that these events form a pattern is our analysis, graded separately and stated as such.
We built a calendar. Every dated event in this story, from four separate places that have no reason to keep the same schedule: the consignment (a family’s LEGO), the corporate paperwork (the entities and the stores), the enforcement machinery (the warrants and the charges), and the public record (the videos and the filings). Eighty-seven events, all sourced. Then we looked for the days when more than one of those clocks struck at once. There are nine. On three of them, the machinery moving against the man documenting the seizure ran on the very same day as the seizure’s own paperwork. On one of those three, it ran inside the same hour.
Three days did the improbable thing: the case against the man documenting the seizure moved on the same day as the seizure’s own paperwork. Here is each one, event by event.
Utah and Oregon are an hour apart, so these are laid on one shared clock. Read the elapsed time on the right: each event is minutes after the one above it, even though the local labels jump between zones.
A Keizer detective records BAM's executives: 'all assets could be seized… they don't belong to Mansell anymore.' read →
Provo Det. Medina Dore swears the search-warrant affidavit for the critic's Google and YouTube accounts. read →
The critic files a routine small-claims default motion on the underlying property dispute.
Judge Christine S. Johnson signs the warrant and orders Google gagged for 90 days. read →
The county attorney files the criminal case against the critic, stalking and targeted residential picketing, bail $2,500. His 3:00 PM hearing is called; he is in Los Angeles, does not appear; a bench warrant issues.
The former Keizer owners, the Gormans, file a twelve-count franchise-fraud and conversion lawsuit against Bricks & Minifigs.
Judge Tony Graf signs the TRO gagging the critic, with a clause ordering his existing videos taken down. read →
The Marion County DA declines the property crime as a civil matter. Case closed. read →
The warrant was signed at 4:16 PM by Judge Christine S. Johnson of Utah’s Fourth District Court, whose name and judicial seal sit beneath the order granting the gag.
And it was not the only warrant against this person, or the only fast one. Three weeks later, on March 11, a different Utah judge signed a second search warrant, the one behind the raid on the house where Schneider was staying. Set them side by side:
Each rested on the same complainant’s narrative. Each cleared a judge in well under an hour. The second one sought, in its own words, “stolen Lego merchandise” under a stalking statute, and its return, after the raid, reads: “No items siezed.” We have written about that Google warrant and the raid before; what is new is the calendar around them.
PRIMARY SOURCEBoth warrants are held. Judge Johnson’s name is confirmed from the signature-seal image on page 7 of warrant 3327741; Judge Griffin’s from the face of warrant 3352981. The sworn and signed times are printed on each. Naming the signing judge of a public court order is ordinary reporting; we make no claim about either judge’s knowledge or intent, only that they signed, and when.
Chase files its blanket lien over all BAM inventory (no consignment carve-out).
Rose City Comic Con: the Mansell consignment's first sales. read →
BAM Franchising re-incorporates in Delaware. read →
The Mansell consignment agreement is signed by Chrystal Law. read →
BAM sells the Canby store to an outside party for $150,000.
Mesa becomes BAM's 100th store; the CEO and COO work the opening.
A conversion suit is filed over the Canby store. read →
Kornish Bricks LLC is formed, six days after the Canby sale.
Roberts signs the South Tucson franchise agreement; a holding LLC forms the same day.
The Oregon-to-Delaware merger completes. read →
Baker Bricks LLC, the takeover vehicle, is formed in Utah. read →
At the Metairie opening, Josh Johnson tells a creator he plans to buy '25 to 50' stores.
Springfield police raid a different Eugene LEGO reseller, Brick Builders. Not a BAM store. read →
Eugene Baker Bricks (Best and Johnson) is incorporated, seven weeks after that raid. read →
A U-Haul runs the Eugene store; the same day, Best 'secret shops' Keizer. read →
The last Mansell sale on BAM's own ledger, two days before the seizure. read →
The Keizer store is seized. On the Ring camera, 7:10 PM: 'Brandon takes on all that consignment.' read →
Salem-Baker Bricks is incorporated the day after the seizure, at the seized store's address. read →
The first Mansell set resurfaces at Best and Johnson's Eugene store, four days after the seizure. read →
Bryan Mansell's discovery-day visit: Best denies everything; the yellow tags are already pulled. read →
Mansell sends his written demand; a witness sees a U-Haul unloading at the Eugene store. read →
Wesley Chapel Baker Bricks (Best and Johnson) is incorporated in Florida.
The Eugene 'intake burst': Mansell sets listed, box-stripped, booked as anonymous 'Trade.' read →
Officer Jennifer Starns files the original Keizer theft report. Ruled a civil matter. read →
Chrystal Law returns 327 minifigures to Mansell in a parking lot. read →
The consignment auto-terminates; unsold goods were due back 'in original condition.' read →
The Gormans' Salem franchise LLC is administratively dissolved.
The origin call: Reckless Ben and Bryan Mansell first connect. read →
A harassment report: the consignor who keeps asking about his LEGO is the one warned. read →
The Eugene store's LEGO wholesale supply cuts off; Amazon-arbitrage stock jumps 8x. read →
Supplement 1: Officer Starns warns Best that property over $10,000 could be Aggravated Theft. read →
Supplement 2: BAM's law firm, Dentons, enters the police matter. read →
The Marion County DA declines the property case, the first time. read →
The Eugene store's one-day 'flush' of held listings; an orderly wind-down. read →
Schneider files his first Oregon small-claims case over his own consignment.
Baker Bricks LLC (the Utah parent) is administratively dissolved.
Eugene Baker Bricks is administratively dissolved.
A new 'BAMFSALEM' LLC files onto the seized address; Schneider amends his claim to $10,000, same day. read →
At the Keizer counter, the man in charge says 'I was at Eugene earlier today,' mid U-Haul run. read →
Schneider files his second Oregon small-claims case.
Johnson's texts to Mansell: 'Do you want it? Yes or no?' and the release-for-return offer. read →
Schneider's first visit to BAM's Provo headquarters. read →
His second Provo visit; a police report is opened, later used to charge him. read →
Detective Jeremiah Worledge reopens the Keizer case. read →
Schneider hands the detective his recordings, one year to the day after the first report. read →
The first small-claims default motion is denied on service.
Schneider's first small-claims case is dismissed without prejudice.
Salem-Baker is dissolved; Mansell reports the store winding down, cash only. read →
The detective emails Mansell that the investigation should not sway his decision on an NDA. read →
Brandon Best's interview: '$17,000,' and 'no obvious markings' in the store. read →
A BAM owner asks the Provo detective to pursue charges against the critic. read →
Warrant 3327741 sworn and signed (Judge Johnson) + the 'assets seized' corporate interview + a property motion, all in 61 minutes. read →
A screen recording shows the Keizer store selling through the Eugene site. read →
Schneider files his third Oregon small-claims case, against Joshua Johnson personally.
Detective Worledge concludes BAM 'informed of and aware,' and re-refers for criminal charges. read →
An AFPD case opens over a fake package at an American Fork residence. read →
An AFPD case over a fake-missionary encounter; officers discuss a pretext stop. read →
The first stalking arrest of Schneider; the LAPD declines the same day. read →
The SWAT raid; warrant 3352981 (Magistrate Griffin) seeking 'stolen Lego'; return: 'No items siezed.' read →
The raid warrant is executed at 6:17 AM; nothing is seized. read →
The criminal Information is filed against the critic + the Gormans file their franchise-fraud suit, same day.
The prosecutor appears for the State in the criminal case.
A Provo City criminal Information (disorderly conduct, trespass) is filed. read →
The critic's arraignment; the same week, a new FDD issues without disclosing the Gorman suit. read →
The last Mansell set resurfaces at the Eugene store; the online resale drip ends. read →
Mediation in the third small-claims case fails; it is set for trial.
A pretrial criminal protective order is entered protecting Joshua Johnson.
Reckless Ben's documentary drops; BAM's first public statement publishes (later Exhibit G). read →
'Bricks and Minifigs responded to my video.'
BAM files its RICO complaint, which puts the consignment exhibits into the public record. read →
The first TRO with a takedown clause; the leaked internal crisis-comms email surfaces. read →
BAM transfers 'Legally Mine' to a new name; the police chief releases footage. read →
'I got arrested because of legos'; more Orem bodycam; national press picks it up.
The TRO/gag is signed at 10:16 AM (Judge Graf); the DA declines the property crime, same day. read →
BAM severs Best and Johnson and files a new Eugene LLC in its own name, the same day. read →
The state gag order is re-signed; the declination is reported publicly. read →
CoffeeZilla: 'I Found The $200,000 Missing Lego.'
Keizer PD produces the records that become this file. read →
BAM removes the civil case to federal court. read →
The federal case is assigned to Judge David Barlow. read →
The preliminary injunction is granted; the earlier gag comes off. read →
Four Orem PD bodycams are published; the chief-meeting footage posts. read →
The federal answer and counterclaims come due.
Bryan Mansell, fact-checked on BAM's own documents. read →
The harassment file: the consignor the police warned. read →
The Keizer police file, published in full. read →
The critic's criminal waiver hearing.
Every event is drawn from a held record. Links open the relevant BAM Map update; unlinked events are documented in our working timeline. Planes: Property Corporate Enforcement Public
Nine days out of a two-year record carry more than one clock. Three of them put the case against the documentarian on the same day as the paperwork of the thing he was documenting, and one of those put them in the same hour. That is the finding, and it is a finding about timing, drawn entirely from public and produced records. It is not, by itself, proof that anyone coordinated anything. Calendars can align by chance, busy weeks cluster events, and litigation and criminal process often move in the same season for ordinary reasons. What the calendar does is put the question on the table in a form anyone can check: these are the dates, these are the sources, and this is what they look like laid side by side.
INFERENCEThat these same-day alignments reflect a connected effort rather than coincidence is our reading, graded inference, and we are not asserting it as fact. The dates and times themselves are primary source and independently checkable. A court, not a website, decides what the pattern means.
To be fair, and this matters. A shared date is not a conspiracy. Every event on this calendar has an innocent explanation available to it: the warrant was sworn when the detective finished her affidavit, the complaint was filed when the plaintiffs’ lawyer finished drafting it, the declination came when the prosecutor got to it. Courts sign warrants quickly all the time, and a fast turnaround is not misconduct. The people named here, including the two judges, are entitled to the presumption that they did their jobs properly, and nothing on this page is a finding against any of them. We have not proven that a single one of these alignments was arranged. What we have done is assemble the public record into one timeline, source every entry, and show where the clocks struck together, so that the reader, and anyone with subpoena power, can see the same thing we did and ask the same question: is this what coincidence looks like, or is it what a coordinated effort looks like when it is written down?
Sources: Keizer Police Department case file KZP24020132 (obtained by BJC under Oregon public records law); Provo Fourth District Court Search Warrant No. 3327741 (affidavit and order, held) and American Fork Search Warrant No. 3352981 (held); the Utah Fourth District dockets for the criminal case (261401094) and the federal matter, the Utah Business & Chancery docket for the Gorman complaint (260200029), and the Marion County, Oregon small-claims dockets; and prior updates on the Google warrant, the raid, the Mansell fact-check, and the reopened Keizer file. The full sourced timeline (87 events) and the three-day, minute-by-minute reconstructions are our working documents behind this piece. Plain-language edition: read it here.
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