This is just bizarre! This clown of a cop Cody and his not so innocent co-conspirator #KariNewell just cost the town millions.
I've never seen a man so P-whipped in my life. https://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dion-lefler/article281968538.html
#Kansas judge who authorized raid o #MarionCountyRecord newsroom over probe in2 restaurateur’s #DUI record has her own history. Judge #LauraViar was arrested at least 2x 4 DUI in '12
Viar’s DUI history could face scrutiny: warrant she approved 4 controversial raid came in response 2 Marion County Record digging in2 DUI history o resto owner #KariNewell. The Viar-authorized raid came after Newell complained about newspaper’s investigation in2 her criminal background.
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html
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Police action definitely guarantees that no one will ever hear about #KariNewell DUI conviction or the police chief's sexual misconduct:
Very intelligent action taken by sheriff to safeguard data privacy.
The Marion County Record was raided by local police, who took all of its equipment and even confiscated the personal cellphones of workers there, they claim. The newspaper’s co-owner, 98-year…
Really good interview with Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record from the Handbasket blog.
"So the backstory that we haven't told, because we don't wanna get in trouble, is that we've been investigating the police chief [Gideon Cody]. When he was named Chief just two months ago, we got an outpouring of calls from his former co-workers making a wide array of allegations against him saying that he was about to be demoted at his previous job and that he retired to avoid demotion and punishment over sexual misconduct charges and other things.”
#MarionCounty #KariNewell #Kansas
https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper
Seems the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (Kansas state police) were also involved in the raid on the Marion County Record, its owner, and employees.
"Marion police had coordinated with the KBI earlier in the week to launch the investigation. Though the KBI assigned an agent to the case Aug. 8 that has been 'assisting since that time,' KBI representatives stressed that the KBI agent didn’t apply for the search warrants and was not present when the warrants were served."
Marion County police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher's home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures.
Why would the Marion, KS police be willing to go to such lengths over an allegation of “identity theft” by a local restaurant owner? Why not just a subpoena? Maybe this:
"The Record had been actively investigating Police Chief Gideon Cody at the time of the raid after receiving tips that he had left his previous job in Kansas City, Mo., to avoid repercussions for alleged sexual misconduct charges, … Though the paper never ran the information, details about the investigation — including the identities of those who made the allegations against Cody — were in a computer seized by police.”
#MarionCounty #Kansas #KariNewell
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/13/marion-county-record-raid-kansas-newspaper/
If you've followed the story of the (probably illegal) small town Kansas police raid on the Marion County Record newspaper, it's owner, publisher, and reporters — it gets worse. The 98 year old owner of the paper died yesterday, the day after the raid on her home.
Completely beyond the pale. Kansas Newspapers gets the full-on fascist treatment. #PhyllisZorn #MarionCounty
#KariNewell is a #drunkdriver
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