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 Aug. 19, 2015 12:03 pm3736d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Forced by law to resentence a man who was convicted as a juvenile of robbing and beating …
News Aug. 18, 2015 9:45 pm3737d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Four family members charged with smuggling guns to Lebanon have been indicted on additional charges of violating …
News Sep. 17, 2021 3:12 pm1515d ago
This week’s On the Record discusses recent federal lawsuits filed against Waterloo and Dubuque police officers for use of excessive …
News Aug. 12, 2015 9:50 pm3743d ago
Gov. Terry Branstad will not reduce the life prison sentence of a 53-year-old Cedar Rapids man who was convicted in …
News Aug. 11, 2015 7:01 pm3744d ago
Alexander Kozak, who is accused of shooting and killing a 20-year-old woman at the Coral Ridge Mall in June, is …
News Aug. 11, 2015 5:00 pm3744d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge reinstated court proceedings Tuesday against a man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl after …
News Aug. 7, 2015 7:25 pm3748d ago
A 64-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in Linn, Johnson and Tama counties received a suspended sentence …
News Aug. 6, 2015 9:25 pm3749d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man pleaded guilty Thursday to being armed and robbing a liquor store with two …
News Aug. 6, 2015 5:46 pm3749d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A northern Iowa man was charged this week in federal court with possessing and receiving child pornography. …
News Aug. 6, 2015 9:00 am3749d ago
On the Record with Trish Mehaffey, courts reporter with The Gazette, discusses juvenile offenders being resentenced in light of the 2014 …
News Aug. 5, 2015 6:44 pm3750d ago
Ramone Moon, sentenced to 25 years in prison as a 17-year-old in 2010, asked a judge Wednesday to ‘take a …
News Aug. 4, 2015 9:35 pm3751d ago
A police drug dog ‘alerted” for narcotics on a Morley man’s storage unit in Cedar Rapids and a search by …
News Aug. 3, 2015 12:49 pm3752d ago
IOWA CITY — The trial for a former Coral Ridge Mall security guard accused of killing 20-year-old Andrea Farrington in …
News Jul. 31, 2015 6:02 pm3755d ago
A Cedar Rapids man pleaded guilty Thursday to his 16th drunken driving conviction, which is apparently a record in Linn …
News Jul. 29, 2015 7:54 pm3757d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Canadian man who fought extradition to Iowa for three years has pleaded guilty in federal court …

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