Update · September 15, 2026
Utah’s largest news outlet has the facts right: two misdemeanors from December 10 at BAM’s office, dismissed without prejudice on Monday “in the interest of justice,” the day before Schneider was due in court. What it does not have is a word from Provo City, a word from Bricks & Minifigs, the Google warrant the case grew out of, or the order that let Court TV and Law & Crime stream Tuesday’s hearing. Its one sentence on Reckless Bricks gets the store’s ownership backwards.
CONFIRMEDKSL, by Emily Ashcraft, published at 9:52 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time on September 15: charges dismissed without prejudice on Monday at prosecutors’ request, “in the interest of justice,” a day before a scheduled Tuesday appearance; American Fork preliminary hearing September 30CONFIRMEDwhat the story does not contain: any statement from Provo City or its attorney, any statement from BAM, the February search warrant for Schneider’s Google account, or the September 9 order allowing live streaming of the September 15 hearing; it credits no sourceUNRESOLVEDwhether KSL asked Provo or BAM for comment. The story does not say. Neither has answered anyone else on the record since the order was signed
KSL’s story is accurate on the record it covers. Provo prosecutors asked for the dismissal; Judge Stephen Schreiner signed it on Monday; the charges were a class C disorderly conduct and a class B criminal trespass from December 10, 2025, at the company’s office; the dismissal is without prejudice; Schneider had been due in Provo City Justice Court on Tuesday. It has the American Fork case still standing, stalking and targeted residential picketing, with a preliminary hearing September 30. It has the civil suit, which it describes as accusing Schneider of “defamation and conspiracy, among other claims”; the complaint runs to twelve counts and its first is Utah’s racketeering statute. It has the terms he agreed to in it: stay away from the stores, do not seek confidential information from employees, do not threaten the company. All of that matches the court file published here on Monday night.
No one is quoted. Provo City, which filed the motion, is not asked why the interest of justice required dropping a case it had carried for five months, or why the answer arrived four days before a hearing. Bricks & Minifigs, whose office was the scene, whose owner asked police to pursue charges and whose executive’s son supplied a witness statement, is not asked anything, and the story does not say whether it was asked. The story does not mention that the Provo file is the one in which a detective obtained a warrant for Schneider’s Gmail and YouTube on an extortion theory that was never charged, which is the reason the dismissal matters beyond two misdemeanors. And it does not mention that Court TV and Law & Crime had asked to cover Tuesday’s hearing on September 8, that the judge had allowed live streaming on September 9, and that the city moved to dismiss on September 10. Those three dates are the story. KSL has the last one.
KSL’s one line on the Tucson store says Schneider “appeared at the opening of a new ‘Reckless Bricks’ store in Tucson, Arizona, a former Bricks and Minifigs location that hopes to rebrand and leave behind its previous owner.” The store has not left behind its owner. By BAM’s own 2026 disclosure and by everything on the store’s own site, the people who ran it as Bricks & Minifigs are the people running it as Reckless Bricks. What it left behind was the franchisor. That is the only fact about the store that matters, and it is the one KSL inverted. It is also the first time KSL has printed the store’s name, three days after it opened, and it appears as a clause at the end of a story about something else.
Chris Reports Things retrieved the order from the court and posted it on Reddit at 4:05 p.m. Monday. This site published the order, the motion and the case history at 7:58 p.m. KSL published at 9:52 the next morning, crediting neither. Nothing yet from Dexerto, Brick Fanatics, Kotaku or the Salt Lake Tribune, all of which have covered the case before. Nothing from BAM. Nothing from Provo. The next date on any docket is Friday, the anti-SLAPP deadline in BAM’s federal suit.
Sources. KSL, September 15, 2026, 9:52 a.m. Provo City v. Schneider, No. 261000376, the case history, motion, order and media coverage order, hosted here. Chris Reports Things, September 14. BAM’s 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Exhibit F, hosted here. The Google warrant, reported July 8. The opening, reported September 12.