Regan Benson’s stay in the Denver County jail lasted a little less than twenty-four hours as the YouTuber was out and about Monday night and free to livestream in front of a band of her most ardent followers.
Benson had turned herself in on Sunday night over the course of roughly two and a half hours of livestreaming. She sat outside the jail and talked and talked and talked about how much she was enemy number one of both Englewood and Denver and how she was going to ultimately defeat them in court, especially after their latest stunt.
According to Benson, she was being charged for writing Denver district three Commander Joel Bell’s name and home address on a sidewalk in front of the district three station and livestreaming it to her fans, telling them that there was going to be a “pig roast” at his house.
Under Colorado Revised Statute 18-9-313 subsection 2.7:
Personal Information on the Internet
It is unlawful for a person to knowingly make available on the internet personal information about a protected person or the protected person’s immediate family if the dissemination of personal information poses an imminent and serious threat to the protected person’s safety or the safety of the protected person’s immediate family and the person making the information available on the internet knows or reasonably should know of the imminent and serious threat.
Reading through the statute, it’s not the act of writing the commander’s home address that got Benson charged, it was distributing it to her followers via the livestream and telling them that there was going to be a “pig roast.”
Others, including Craig Hendry and Lane Myers faced similar charges and both ended up with extensive jail time for said charges. However, Benson’s one statement in front of a small livestream (under 100 people) was not the prolonged complaint of Myers (which extended months targeting a single government employee) or had the reaction of when Hendry did it (hundreds of calls to attack his victim).
Benson’s actions, while enough to get charged with violation of the statute, probably will not go anywhere. While an affidavit that Benson would later read on the stream showed that the police commander was upset with seeing Benson broadcast his home address to her fans, there was not enough evidence for a judge to grant his request for a criminal protection order.
Again, relying on Benson’s account of the story, Commander Bell was able to serve her with a temporary civil restraining order that goes to court later this year.
Benson claimed that the warrant and arrest were part of an on-going campaign by Commander Bell and others in the Denver police department against her in retaliation for her filing another lawsuit against the city and county of Denver.
That lawsuit, filed in June of 2025, revolves around accusations by Benson that the Denver Police Department refused to nominate her for a spot on the department’s Use of Force board based on her past statements against the department.
Benson is seeking “actual economic damages as established at trial,” compensatory damages, punitive damages, policy changes, an official apology from each defendant, and mandatory training designed to avoid future similar misconduct by the defendants.
