Two 21-year-old Ohio YouTubers are facing felony charges after allegedly posing as members of the Ole Miss media team to enter a University of Florida football game without tickets. Investigators say Ryan Joseph Ejhinger and Toby Michael Frazier also accessed the visiting team’s buses and later posted videos of their activities online.
The investigation began on September 25, when University of Florida police received a complaint about two people disrupting an event at Antevy Hall. The incident took place one day before Florida was scheduled to play Ole Miss.
## Classroom disruption preceded the stadium incident
Frazier allegedly interrupted a study-abroad meeting intended to help students and faculty understand visa requirements for an upcoming trip to Italy. He arrived 15 to 20 minutes late wearing an Ole Miss shirt and loudly complained that he could not find a chair, despite walking past a stack of them.
After taking a seat behind faculty members, he continued disrupting the presentation and shouted, “Boring!” When staff members asked him to leave, he reportedly yelled about Ole Miss winning the football game. About 15 minutes later, he returned wearing a Florida Gators shirt and argued that he could not be removed. Ejhinger filmed the confrontation. Both men left before campus police arrived.
The following day, the pair went to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium for the Florida–Ole Miss game. Frazier allegedly carried a prohibited backpack and a camera mounted on a gimbal, while Ejhinger wore a wireless microphone. After bypassing the bag-check line near Gate 12, they were stopped by a security contractor and questioned by a University of Florida Police Department officer.
The men reportedly said they worked for Ole Miss’s social media team and had briefly left the security perimeter to film. Ejhinger then called someone saved in his phone as “Tanner” and handed the phone to the officer. The person claimed he was inside the stadium holding their media credentials. The officer allowed them to proceed, although they did not have visible passes.
Investigators say the pair then passed the Gate 12 ticket checkpoint without tickets, filmed themselves in Section 29 and allegedly lied to a bus driver to get onto the Ole Miss team buses. They later uploaded footage of the incidents, including video from the Antevy Hall disruption. After reviewing the videos, investigators concluded that “Tanner” was likely an unidentified associate who helped the pair deceive security.
## Investigators link the pair to other stadium attempts
Florida was not the only campus where the two allegedly tried to enter a football stadium without authorization. On October 17, Indiana University Police told Florida investigators that the pair had attempted to get into another college football venue. Security personnel recognized Ejhinger by name and called him out. Both men left before officers arrived.
Frazier later wrote on social media that he had been banned from Indiana for two years, adding, “Apparently we can’t go near the stadium because of Florida.”
On October 21, Florida investigators learned that Ejhinger was facing trespassing and theft-by-deception charges following an alleged incident at the Penn State–USC football game. The pair reportedly claimed that a supervisor had their media credentials inside the stadium and entered without scanning tickets.
Ejhinger later told a Penn State officer that they had no credentials and said he was testing stadium security to see how far he could get. Florida investigators questioned that explanation, noting that the pair’s social media videos did not describe their actions as an effort to raise security awareness. In the Florida video, Ejhinger reportedly acknowledged entering without a ticket or media credentials.
## Arrests and charges
On October 23, Judge Denise Ferrero signed arrest warrants for both men. They were charged with felony unauthorized entry into a ticketed event attended by more than 5,000 people and disruption of a school function. Bail was initially set at $5,500 each.
Both men were booked into Alachua County Jail on November 12. Court records indicated that neither had a prior criminal history. Judge Adam Lee later released them on their own recognizance, so they did not have to post bail. Their release came with a condition that they have no contact with each other while their cases proceed. No conviction had been reported.
Florida Statute 871.05 classifies willfully entering a ticketed sporting event attended by more than 5,000 people without authorization as a third-degree felony. The offense can carry a prison sentence of up to five years. The law also bars convicted offenders from profiting from the violation, and money earned from the alleged stunt could be subject to seizure and forfeiture if the men are convicted.
## Another high-profile stadium security case
The Florida incident followed a separate alleged security breach at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. On June 27, 2026, Argentine YouTubers Beni Marmol, 20, and Pato Perrotta, 26, were arrested after allegedly bypassing three security layers at the Colombia–Portugal FIFA World Cup match. The sold-out game drew 64,478 spectators, and tickets were reportedly selling for thousands of dollars.
Marmol allegedly said he was an influencer trying to livestream the match. Perrotta reportedly claimed he had been hired by a media company, although he carried credentials from a previous event. Both faced felony charges of illegally interfering with a sporting event, an offense carrying a potential five-year prison sentence.
Their arrests came during a heightened Florida crackdown on stadium trespassing following the 2024 Copa America final, when authorities arrested 27 people and ejected another 55.
In the Florida football case, investigators say the YouTubers’ own videos helped document their alleged actions. What the pair may have intended as viral content instead became part of an investigation that led to arrest warrants and felony charges.
