Former Kansas police chief formally charged over Marion newspaper raid
A former Kansas police chief linked to the Aug.
A former Kansas police chief linked to the Aug. 11, 2023, raid of a local newspaper was formally charged with one count of interference with the judicial process.
Gideon Cody, who resigned from the Marion Police Department less than two months after the raid, is accused of inducing a witness to withhold information in a felony case, according to a complaint filed Monday.
The charge comes a year after the offices of the Marion County Record were searched in a raid that also targeted the homes of its publisher and co-owner Eric Meyer and City Council member Ruth Herbel.
Meyer's 98-year-old mother Joan Meyer, also a co-owner of the newspaper, lived with him and was home at the time of the raid. She collapsed and died the day after the raid, and Meyer blamed her death on the stress of the raid.
Joan Meyer, co-owner of the Marion County Record, swears at police officers in her home on Aug. 11, 2023.Marion County RecordCody used his five-member force and help from Marion County sheriff’s deputies to launch warrant-based searches based on his belief that one of the Record's reporters committed identity theft by accessing the driver records of a restaurant owner, according to court documents previously released by the paper’s attorney.
Rating: 5