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13.08.2023 - 19:41 / 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.
Computers, including the newspaper’s file service, and personal cell phones of staff members were taken, the Record reported.
Eric Meyer told CNN he was at home with his mother. She “tearfully watched” as police took away her computer, a router and her Alexa smart speakers.
He told the Reflector and wrote in a Record article that Newell, who was trying to obtain a liquor license, had been convicted of drunk driving and had driven without a license.
Meyer said he ultimately decided against publishing the story. Instead, he notified police, who launched an investigation and obtained a search warrant for evidence of identity theft and criminal use of a computer.
A search warrant, posted online by the Reflector, was approved by a judge citing probable cause that crimes were committed.
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