116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Trish Mehaffey
Reporter covering state and federal courts, and whatever legal issues come my way. I also provide live coverage of criminal trials on Twitter @tmehaffey and welcome comments and questions from readers during the trials. Outside of work I love movies, tennis and my Kansas State Wildcats! Go Cats! Stay informed with the Public Safety newsletter.
Latest Articles by Trish Mehaffey
Crime & Courts Jan. 17, 2020 9:30 pm2122d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man Friday pleaded guilty to six charges of distributing drugs and illegally possessing firearms, …
Crime & Courts Jan. 17, 2020 2:37 pm2122d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Police investigators couldn’t find evidence that Jerry Burns and Michelle Martinko knew each other. Yet they had …
Crime & Courts Jan. 16, 2020 3:19 pm2123d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man in his 30s with ‘fatal traumatic injuries” was found lying in an alley by police …
Crime & Courts Jan. 16, 2020 9:55 pm2123d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – When a hearing over key evidence in the cold case murder of Michelle Martinko resumes Thursday, prosecutors …
Crime & Courts Jan. 15, 2020 6:34 pm2124d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man pleaded Wednesday to an amended charge in the sexual abuse of an 11-year-old …
Crime & Courts Jan. 15, 2020 8:26 pm2124d ago
IOWA CITY – A West Liberty man pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 20-year-old woman he met at an Iowa City …
Community Jan. 14, 2020 9:00 am2126d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Employees of Collins Community Credit Union put their muscles behind a donation last week to HACAP as …
Crime & Courts Jan. 13, 2020 8:22 pm2126d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 28-year-old woman last week said she was angry because her estranged husband wouldn’t ‘be a man …
Crime & Courts Jan. 13, 2020 12:05 pm2127d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The trial for a Central City woman charged with intentionally running over and killing a cyclist in 2018 …
News Feb. 6, 2020 10:41 am2103d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A father-son lunch more than a year ago at the Manchester Pizza Ranch yielded a key piece …
Crime & Courts Jan. 11, 2020 1:41 pm2128d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Marion man, who is a retired Iowa college professor, was sentenced Wednesday to more than seven …
Crime & Courts Jan. 10, 2020 2:07 pm2129d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Vinton man, who sold methamphetamine to confidential informants and others numerous times and also manufactured the …
Crime & Courts Jan. 8, 2020 9:17 am2132d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 21-year-old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison for illegally …
Crime & Courts Jan. 7, 2020 5:46 pm2132d ago
DES MOINES – An Iowa City man, who was charged with four other Eastern Iowa men last year for sex …
Crime & Courts Jan. 2, 2020 7:00 am2138d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Federal firearms prosecutions have continued to increase this year – not necessarily due to any spike in …

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