In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.

In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
    81·
    1 year ago

    Man, the ACLU is gonna have a field day with this one. And Newell should be charged with making a fake police report:

    The search warrant identifies two pages worth of items that law enforcement officers were allowed to seize, including computer software and hardware, digital communications, cellular networks, servers and hard drives, items with passwords, utility records, and all documents and records pertaining to Newell. The warrant specifically targeted ownership of computers capable of being used to “participate in the identity theft of Kari Newell.”

    She’s claiming that because Meyer did research on her, he’s participating in identity theft. Great job at keeping this story out of the papers, Newell, now everyone knows you’re a drunk-driving criminal with no respect to for the rule of law or freedom of the press. Welcome to the Streisand effect.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
      53·
      1 year ago

      It wasn’t just her. What happened was the paper said the police knew she didn’t have a license and gave her a pass. The cops decided to punish the paper for calling out their corruption. Everything else just flows from incompetence, from the attorney general’s office to the judge.

      • Arotrios@kbin.social
        9·
        1 year ago

        I hear you there - there’s plenty of dumbfuckery laced throughout this story. I just wanted to draw out that particular piece of stupid in my comment, because it’s clear that this drunken trash heap of a human being is the root of the entire brouhaha.

          • ArtieShaw@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            That’s a good find. Unfortunately for that chief, he seems to have a talent for lighting his problems on fire instead of burying them. What could have been a quiet little small town scandal blew up to become national news. Good work, chief!

            And the greatest irony to me is that the newspaper reported on NONE of this. OK, they did cover the story where Karin went off the rails and aired her own dirty laundry at the town council meeting, but it’s not like that was any sort of secret.