A local Facebook post seeking to identify a woman who took a package prompted a series of combative responses from Lisa Dennison, a former Jeff Davis County attorney’s assistant whose conduct toward a journalist is among the allegations in a federal civil rights lawsuit.
The Aug. 29, 2025, post in an Alpine community Facebook group included residential security footage and asked whether anyone recognized the woman. After a participant identified Dennison, she joined the discussion under her own name.
Dennison said she mistakenly collected the package from the wrong apartment while picking up mail for her boss and returned it through Alpine police. What may have been an honest mistake then became an extended public argument over her responses.
She called a commenter a “hater,” mocked “small town folk,” described herself as “very likable and FUN” and repeatedly demanded that the post and discussion be erased.
“You have no clue about your facts,” Dennison told one participant. “Must be a pretty miserable existence to live the life of a hater when you don’t even know the facts.”
The original poster, Facebook user Lc Gasca, accused the unidentified woman of looking through a mailbox and taking a package from the front door.
Dennison explained that she was unfamiliar with the neighborhood and that several street signs were missing. She said the package contained magnesium salt.
“It was an accident Maryann!!!!! i returned it to the police department in person!” she wrote.
Some participants defended her and described the incident as a misunderstanding. Others questioned her explanation or urged police involvement. Gasca said a police report had already been made.
Dennison responded several times to the anonymous participant who identified her.
“Your loss you don’t know who I am,” she wrote.
She also invited the participant to meet her, mentioning that she worked at Provisions on Murphy Street.
“If you’d like to have a cup of coffee even better,” she wrote. “This has really gotten out of hand when you decided to identify me accidentally at the wrong address. Have we met before?”
In another response, Dennison announced that she had undergone “an attitude adjustment” about the attention.
“As they say in Hollywood: ‘Any publicity is better than no publicity’ so I’m grateful for the publicity forced upon me today!” she wrote.
“I’m actually a very likable and FUN person,” she continued, adding that she had to laugh at “the immediate attacks on me personally from small town folk with nothing better to do than to jump to conclusions.”
A profile shown in the screenshots bears Dennison’s name and photograph and the introductory line: “I was ‘normal’ three cats ago.” It also identifies her as a former member of the Alpine discussion group.
Despite her comment welcoming publicity, Dennison repeatedly asked Gasca to delete the post.
“We’re all adults. It was a mistake and I would like for this record to be erased,” she wrote.
“You never know I could be one of your best friends. I’m not a hater. I’m just trying to protect my reputation.”
She later asked again, saying the continuing comments were “defaming my character.”
Dennison previously worked in the Jeff Davis County Attorney’s Office and is a defendant in publisher David Flash’s federal civil rights lawsuit.
A magistrate judge’s report recounts Flash’s allegations that Dennison confronted him about an investigation after he published reporting critical of county officials. It also describes his allegation that she obtained mugshots covered by a nondisclosure order that subsequently appeared in an anonymous post attacking his credibility. Those allegations are not findings of liability.
The package incident is separate from that litigation. Dennison’s explanation describes an accidental collection and return; the screenshots do not establish criminal intent. They document the personal attacks and repeated demands she posted after the request to identify her.
