The Kansas Bureau of Investigations has launched a probe into last week’s police raid on the newsroom of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and co-owner, Eric Meyer. Police seized computers, hard drives, servers and phones.
Eric Meyer lived with his 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer, who was co-publisher of the family-owned newspaper, the Marion County Record. One day after the police raid, Joan Meyer died at her home. The paper blamed her death on the police raid, saying it had left her, quote, “stressed beyond her limits.” At the time of her death, Joan Meyer was talking about the raid, saying, quote, “Where are all the good people to put a stop to this?” She died mid-sentence as she expressed outrage over what happened.
The raid reportedly stemmed from a dispute between the newspaper and a local restaurant owner, who accused the Marion County Record of illegally obtaining information about a drunk driving incident of its owner. But it appears the newspaper had also been actively investigating Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody over sexual misconduct
— source democracynow.org | Aug 16, 2023