The Marion County Record is a small newspaper in Kansas. Its offices, in a town of some 2,000 residents, were raided by essentially the entire police department.
ABC explained the claimed basis for the raid: “A search warrant tied Friday morning raids, led by Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody, to a dispute between the newspaper and a local restaurant owner, Kari Newell. She is accusing the newspaper of invading her privacy and illegally accessing information about her and her driving record and suggested that the newspaper targeted her after she threw Meyer and a reporter out of the restaurant during a political event.”
But there appears to be more to the story. The New York Post has reported that the newspaper was investigating the police department itself, including its chief, Gideon Cody, who stands accused by anonymous sources of engaging in sexual misconduct.
