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Michael Sainato

Office and homes of reporters at local Kansas newspaper raided by police

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The owner and publisher of the paper said the raid and seizure stemmed from a confidential source leaking sensitive documents to the newspaper. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

Local police in Marion, Kansas, conducted a raid on the offices of a local newspaper on Friday as well as the homes of the publication’s publishers and reporters.

Eric Meyer, the owner and publisher of the Marion County Record, told the Kansas Reflector that the city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies conducted the raid, which included the seizure of computers, cellphones and reporting materials.

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