Snapchat co-founder Reggie Brown accused of running amok in swanky gated community

The one-time tech visionary who invented Snapchat’s disappearing-photos feature vanished from the public eye after a nasty legal battle with his co-founders — and has since been accused of running amok in a swanky gated community, The Post has learned. Reggie Brown, who co-founded Snapchat with Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy while the trio were hard-partying undergraduates at Stanford University, was pushed out of the company a decade ago. While Spiegel and Murphy became billionaires when Snap Inc. went public, Brown largely dropped off the map after winning a $157.5 million cash settlement from Snapchat in 2014 — when he was just 24 years old. Now, a series of police reports, exclusively obtained by The Post through the Freedom of Information Act, shed light on the rejected inventor’s allegedly troubled life since he was ousted from Snapchat — despite his key role in creating the wildly popular social network — and returned to his native South Carolina. The documents include allegations that Brown “swatted” a police officer after recklessly driving a Bentley luxury sedan during a reported music video shoot. He later became locked in an increasingly bizarre feud with his elderly next-door neighbors, who accused Brown of damaging their
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