Authorities raided the offices of the Marion County Record as well as the home of publisher Eric Meyer, seizing computers, cellphones and the paper’s server. The raid was conducted on suspicion of identity theft and unlawful acts concerning computers.
Local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters and the publisher's home on Aug. 11.
Police in Marion, Kan., which is home to 1,900 people, raided the offices of the Marion County Record as well as the home of publisher Eric Meyer on Aug. 11, seizing computers, cellphones and the paper’s server. Meyer’s 98-year-old mother, Joan, was present at his home and died Saturday, which Meyer attributed to the stress of the events. The paper said that the home of 80-year-old Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel was raided at the same time.
Meyer said that although the paper had “half a dozen or more” anonymous sources, it had not run the story because no one would go on the record, and it had been unable to get Cody’s personnel file to confirm.
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