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 Apr. 23, 2019 6:17 pm2461d ago
WEST UNION – A 20-year-old Postville man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years on lesser charges in the kidnapping and …
Community Apr. 23, 2019 4:51 pm2461d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids is the only community in Iowa to receive a ‘Walk Friendly” designation, which was awarded …
Crime & Courts Apr. 23, 2019 8:01 pm2461d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A sentencing hearing was delayed Tuesday for a former Linn-Mar High School nurse convicted of having sex …
Crime & Courts Apr. 23, 2019 11:30 pm2461d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who had his cousin break in to a Cedar Rapids man’s home and force him …
Crime & Courts Apr. 20, 2019 7:02 pm2464d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A horrible crash early in his career changed Joe Schmitz’s perspective as a police officer from ‘getting …
Crime & Courts Apr. 19, 2019 11:52 pm2465d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Federal prosecutors will ask a judge next month to sentence a former youth basketball coach, convicted of …
Crime & Courts May. 1, 2019 10:36 am2453d ago
The plea agreement reveals timeline of the investigation into former Iowa Barnstormers AAU coach Greg Stephen. A longer story will …
News Apr. 18, 2019 6:16 pm2466d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Iowa man was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in federal prison for stealing trade …
Crime & Courts Apr. 18, 2019 9:55 am2466d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A teenager who fatally shot a 15-year-old in 2015 was given the chance Wednesday to have a …
Crime & Courts Apr. 16, 2019 7:00 pm2468d ago
IOWA CITY – A 31-year-old former special education paraeducator who sexually abused a child when she was younger than 6 …
Crime & Courts Apr. 15, 2019 7:24 pm2469d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Authorities believe the 64-year-old Manchester man charged with fatally stabbing Michelle Martinko in 1979 may have cut …
Crime & Courts Apr. 12, 2019 7:41 pm2472d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The trial for a Cedar Rapids man charged in the fatal shooting of a woman, and trying …
Crime & Courts Apr. 17, 2019 5:52 pm2467d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Marion man pleaded guilty Thursday to breaking into a man’s motel room last October and stabbing …
Crime & Courts Apr. 17, 2019 6:06 pm2467d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Marion man accused of assaulting a woman who later died hasn’t been charged in her death, …
Crime & Courts Apr. 10, 2019 8:44 pm2474d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A fourth man has been arrested in connection with an alleged large-scale marijuana trafficker, who was robbed …

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