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 Jun. 26, 2018 7:02 pm2693d ago
A Traer man, while behind bars serving time on a gun conviction, hired a hit man in May to kill …
Crime & Courts Jun. 26, 2018 7:34 pm2693d ago
A woman, who was the lead plaintiff in a class action discrimination lawsuit against the state before being convicted of …
Crime & Courts Mar. 29, 2022 3:15 pm1321d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 15-year-old was waived from juvenile into adult court last week and formally charged Monday with two …
Government & Politics Jun. 25, 2018 6:49 pm2694d ago
Gov. Kim Reynolds appointed Assistant Linn County Attorney Jason Besler as the next 6th Judicial District judge. Besler, 44, will …
Government & Politics Jun. 22, 2018 8:59 pm2697d ago
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld a district court ruling that property owners cannot sue railroads for damages in …
Crime & Courts Jun. 22, 2018 6:27 pm2697d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal appeals court Friday upheld the conviction and sentence of a Cedar Rapids man, who a …
Crime & Courts Jun. 21, 2018 4:21 pm2698d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Waterloo man who traveled to Mexico to have sex with a teenage girl and distributed child …
Crime & Courts Jun. 20, 2018 5:41 pm2699d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Zwingle man who was part of a fraud that bilked more than 250 elderly people across …
Crime & Courts Jun. 20, 2018 6:15 pm2699d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – With a new court filing this week, both men accused of attempted murder by shooting guns at …
Government & Politics Jun. 15, 2018 9:08 pm2704d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Iowa’s unclear ‘stand your ground” law presents another challenge to the court, this time in Linn County …
Crime & Courts Jun. 15, 2018 6:53 pm2704d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge revoked probation Friday for a man who drove his car at two police officers and …
Crime & Courts Jun. 15, 2018 2:32 pm2704d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Michigan man who ordered drugs from the ‘dark web” and shipped them to a friend in …
Crime & Courts Jun. 13, 2018 6:35 pm2706d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for breaking into a man’s …
Crime & Courts Jun. 13, 2018 6:28 pm2706d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge said Benjamin McCauley, recently convicted for distributing synthetic drugs, may have ‘set a record …
Crime & Courts Jun. 13, 2018 6:46 pm2706d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a Waterloo man, who sent threatening tweets last August to U.S. Sen. …

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