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. 12, 2018 4:38 pm2707d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A felon, who had a gun and led police on a high-speed chase and was eventually Tased …
Crime & Courts Jun. 11, 2018 5:45 pm2708d ago
Kenyauta Vesey-Keith of Cedar Rapids was 16 at the time he was charged with fatally shooting 21-year-old Brandon Johnson and …
Crime & Courts Jun. 12, 2018 10:55 am2707d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal appeals court Monday upheld convictions of three Cedar Rapids family members for smuggling 252 guns …
Crime & Courts Jun. 8, 2018 7:55 pm2711d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A trial for a Cedar Rapids man, charged with killing a mother of three in April, has …
Crime & Courts Jun. 7, 2018 5:27 pm2712d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — An 18-year-old Oklahoma man was charged last week for stealing a cellphone of a convicted former substitute …
Crime & Courts Jun. 8, 2018 1:43 pm2711d ago
A Cedar Rapids man who was charged last month with killing a woman in her garage and then setting it …
Crime & Courts Jun. 5, 2018 6:09 pm2714d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Anamosa man was convicted Monday in federal court for possession of child pornography. Austin Marek, 22, …
Crime & Courts Jun. 5, 2018 7:11 pm2714d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The ‘anguish and distress” lifted Tuesday for the family of Lynnsey Donald, 29, who was stabbed 32 …
Crime & Courts Jun. 5, 2018 5:46 pm2714d ago
The sentencing for Nicholas Luerkens is happening now, after Luerkens pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in May. Luerkens stabbed his …
Crime & Courts Jun. 6, 2018 5:59 pm2713d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Jennifer Perez said she has gone through the motions of life on automatic – ‘sleep, get up, …
Crime & Courts Jun. 4, 2018 2:44 pm2715d ago
Keith Furne, 35, of Cedar Rapids, was found guilty April 18 by a Story County jury for text messaging when …
Education Dec. 3, 2021 1:03 pm1437d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The neighbors’ lawsuit against UI Football Coach Kirk Ferentz and his wife over road repairs and easement …
Crime & Courts Jun. 1, 2018 11:02 am2718d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Angela Beik, a former Linn-Mar High School nurse accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, pleaded …
Crime & Courts May. 31, 2018 7:05 pm2719d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Dubuque man who transported pounds of ‘ice” methamphetamine to Eastern Iowa from Omaha, Neb., was sentenced …
Crime & Courts Jan. 14, 2022 2:53 pm1395d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A felon who unlawfully had guns, and who used those guns while distributing marijuana, was sentenced this …

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