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
News Dec. 16, 2016 12:43 pm3320d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Cedar Rapids man, who illegally had multiple firearms as a …
News Dec. 16, 2016 11:20 am3320d ago
An Iowa dental company with practices across the state, including one in Cedar Rapids, settled a lawsuit this month for …
News Dec. 15, 2016 8:14 pm3321d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — A Chicago man convicted of distributing heroin, who tried to stash heroin in a police station toilet …
News Dec. 15, 2016 5:27 pm3321d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge is to announce his verdict Friday in the case of Mary Beth Haglin, a former …
News Dec. 15, 2016 12:00 am3322d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 20-year-old who took and concealed the handgun used in the unintentional shooting death of a 15-year-old …
News Dec. 14, 2016 1:41 pm3322d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge set bail at $1 million for a Hiawatha man formally charged Wednesday with killing his …
Podcasts Dec. 14, 2016 9:23 am3322d ago
This installment of On the Record talks about the family members convicted for smuggling guns from Cedar Rapids to Lebanon …
News Dec. 12, 2016 5:47 pm3324d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Bassem Herz, the last family member convicted of smuggling an estimated 252 guns to Lebanon, was sentenced …
News Mar. 7, 2023 3:30 pm1048d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The president of the Iowa-Nebraska NAACP says what she and others see on a video showing Cedar …
News Dec. 7, 2016 9:00 pm3329d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An agent for the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said attempts to obtain Jerime Mitchell’s side of …
News Dec. 6, 2016 9:41 pm3330d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A grand jury looking into the Nov. 1 traffic-stop shooting of motorist Jerime Mitchell has decided – …
News Dec. 6, 2016 2:09 pm3330d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden is to announce a grand jury’s verdict this afternoon in the …
News Dec. 5, 2016 5:59 pm3331d ago
A man who fled the country while on pretrial release on federal drug charges in 2003 was sentenced last week …
News Dec. 5, 2016 5:42 pm3331d ago
A Waterloo man who had more than 500,000 images and videos of child pornography on his computer and flash drive …
News Dec. 4, 2016 7:30 am3332d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — A Linn County grand jury will be convened for the first time in an estimated 10 years …

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