Kansas News Outlet Raided By Local Police, Who Seize Computers, Phones, Records

deadline.com:

A raid by police in Marion, Kansas on the home and office of a newspaper publisher is being blamed for contributing to the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother.

Joan Meyer, who was a coowner of the Marion County Record, died at her home after being “stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief,” the Record reported.

She was “otherwise in good health for her age,” the media outlet claimed. The raid by the Marion Police Department stemmed from a complaint by a local restaurant owner.

Kari Newell accused the Record of illegally obtaining information about her during a council meeting earlier this week. Five officers – the full contingent of the Marion Police Dept. — along with two sheriff’s deputies came to the Record offices on Friday and took “everything we have,” the newspaper’s publisher and coowner Eric Meyer told the Kansas Reflector, a nonprofit news site.