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.
I just don’t understand the motivation to bootstrap such a ridiculous farce. This drunk driving Karen obviously doesn’t have the power to move a magistrate, ag, and an entire police force for bullshit claims of identity theft. There has to be very very serious levels of incompetence here. Magistrate signing without looking at warrants. AG drafting illegal searches. Officers following nonsense orders. Both the sheriff and the head of the police department authorizing illegal seizures?
Edit: NOW I know the motivation. It’s because the paper said the police KNEW she didn’t have a license but gave her a pass. The paper made the police look like corrupt idiots, so the chief of police go the attorney general’s office to write an warrant and the judge blindly signs whatever the AG sends their way. That police chief should go to jail.
a sitting US representative does have that clout… Marion County, Kansas, has a little more than 10 thousand people. For comparison, the suburb I live in has just under 70 thousand.
it doesn’t take a lot of clout to get a county magistrate to do something in a podunk county like Marion. LaTurner did a favor for one of his supporters.