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 May. 18, 2015 5:19 pm3899d ago
Midamar in a statement Monday clarified it only provided export services to the family accused of smuggling guns to Lebanon …
News May. 15, 2015 11:56 pm3901d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The founder of Midamar Corp. will ask a federal judge next week for a protective order to …
News May. 15, 2015 8:19 pm3901d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – After a three-hour federal hearing, during which prosecutors said they have an ‘overwhelming” amount of evidence, a …
News May. 14, 2015 6:50 pm3902d ago
A Cedar Rapids teen who robbed two others and threatened them with a gun in March was charged Thursday in …
News May. 14, 2015 6:43 pm3902d ago
The forensics team working in rural Ely last week that may be connected to the unsolved homicide of a 51-year-old …
News Feb. 3, 2022 3:57 pm1446d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Three of the four defendants charged with conspiring to smuggle guns and ammunitions from Iowa to Lebanon will …
News Jan. 28, 2022 2:47 pm1452d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The mother of 17-year-old Severn Jefferson told a federal judge Wednesday she didn’t want her son’s killer, …
News May. 13, 2015 12:19 pm3904d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Dubuque man who embezzled over $365,000 from an excavating company was sentenced Tuesday to more than two …
News May. 14, 2015 2:10 pm3903d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man charged with three counts of vehicular homicide in the death of a city water …
News May. 11, 2015 5:58 pm3906d ago
Linda Christie said her granddaughter Evelyn, ‘such a precious soul,’ was smiling in heaven Monday because ‘she got justice after …
News May. 8, 2015 10:20 pm3908d ago
A Cedar Rapids man pleaded guilty Thursday to breaking an infant’s ribs and a leg in 2014. Kirk Allen Davis, …
News May. 7, 2015 11:37 am3910d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge said Thursday she will not reduce or increase the bond for Lawson Chadwick, charged with three …
News May. 6, 2015 9:55 pm3910d ago
An 18-year-old Cedar Rapids man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two charges of sexually abusing two children for over a year. …
News May. 6, 2015 12:13 pm3911d ago
IOWA CITY – An Iowa City man accused in the death of his girlfriend’s toddler in 2012 will plead guilty …
News May. 5, 2015 5:40 pm3912d ago
A Maquoketa taxidermist will plead guilty next week in federal court to selling and buying horns of black rhinoceros, an …

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