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 May. 30, 2018 7:30 pm2789d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan Jr. and other law enforcement officials announced charges and arrests of 31 recent …
Crime & Courts Feb. 4, 2019 3:54 pm2539d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Williamsburg man wants a judge to toss out his confession of hitting his girlfriend’s 2-1/2 year-old …
Crime & Courts May. 30, 2018 1:52 pm2789d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Linn County jury found a Marengo man guilty of attempted murder Tuesday in a 2016 shooting, …
Crime & Courts May. 28, 2018 1:40 pm2791d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Linn County Attorney’s Office is cracking down on offenders who try to run from police for …
Community May. 27, 2018 1:57 pm2792d ago
Luzerne may be a town where literally ‘everybody knows your name” with a population of only 96 people, but this …
Crime & Courts May. 24, 2018 9:09 pm2795d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Convicted last month in a texting-while-driving crash that killed two teenagers, a Cedar Rapids man should have …
Crime & Courts May. 23, 2018 6:24 pm2796d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids transportation broker pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to defrauding a bank by submitting …
Crime & Courts May. 23, 2018 4:49 pm2796d ago
IOWA CITY – A judge sentenced a Tipton man this week to up to 20 years in prison for shooting …
Crime & Courts May. 22, 2018 6:37 pm2797d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A mother of a teen told a judge Tuesday the ‘evil, manipulative monster,” who sexually abused her …
Crime & Courts May. 21, 2018 5:13 pm2798d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man convicted for distributing child pornography, after previously serving time for a related crime, …
Crime & Courts May. 18, 2018 9:08 pm2801d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids woman was convicted Thursday for stealing nearly $200,000 from her deceased boyfriend and his …
Crime & Courts May. 18, 2018 1:10 pm2801d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A retrial next week for Nicholas Luerkens, who stabbed his former girlfriend 32 times in front of …
Crime & Courts May. 15, 2018 5:50 pm2804d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man was convicted this week in federal court for distributing heroin near a truck …
Crime & Courts May. 15, 2018 5:09 pm2804d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Illinois man who shot at the outside of a club in downtown Dubuque was convicted Tuesday …
Crime & Courts May. 14, 2018 5:20 pm2805d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge has ruled that prosecutors can’t use a portion of a police interview with a man, …

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