Two special prosecutors say the reporter and editor who were targeted with the raid in the small town of Marion, Kansas, did not commit any crimes.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Two special prosecutors said Monday that they plan to file a criminal obstruction of justice charge against a former central Kansas police chief over his conduct following a raid last year on his town’s newspaper, and that the newspaper’s staff committed no crimes.
But the prosecutors concluded that they have probable cause to believe that that Cody obstructed an official judicial process by withholding two pages of a written statement from a local business owner from investigators in September 2023, about six weeks after the raid. Cody had accused Meyer and reporter Phyllis Zorn of identity theft and other computer crimes related to the business owner’s driving record to get warrants for the raid.
A felony obstruction charge could be punished by up to nine months in prison for a first-time offender, though the typical sentence would be 18 months or less on probation. A misdemeanor charge could result in up to a year in jail.
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