Search Warrant Withdrawn After Backlash Over Kansas Newspaper Raid
The search warrant that led to a raid of a local Kansas newspaper’s office has been withdrawn amid national backlash, authorities said Wednesday.
The Marion County attorney confirmed that after reviewing the warrant executed at several locations on Friday, including the offices of the Marion County Record, “insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between the alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.”
County Attorney Joel Ensey added that he asked local law enforcement, the same ones who executed the search warrants just days prior, to return the seized material to its owners. The three raids occurred at the newspaper office, the home of publisher Eric Meyer and his mother, and the home of Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel.