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. 5, 2015 1:56 pm3913d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 21-year-old Tama County man convicted of killing his 17-year-old friend last year on the Meskwaki Settlement …
News May. 4, 2015 9:22 pm3913d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids Police Officer Tim Davis told a judge Monday that Jose Rockiett’s ‘poor choices” one day …
News May. 3, 2015 4:30 pm3915d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 21-year-old man, who four men say threatened to ‘shoot up” a party that ended in Latasha Roundtree …
News Apr. 30, 2015 8:34 pm3917d ago
A Wisconsin woman was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail for plowing into a car stopped in a Mount …
News Apr. 30, 2015 1:12 pm3918d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 29-year-old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 31 years in federal prison earlier this week for robbing …
News Apr. 29, 2015 11:49 pm3918d ago
A Cedar Rapids man with 30 previous convictions pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally possessing a firearm in federal court. Kendan …
News Apr. 29, 2015 10:46 pm3918d ago
Sixth Judicial District Judge Douglas Russell said after 15 years on the bench he is ready to pursue other things …
News Apr. 29, 2015 5:01 pm3918d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — A 43-year-old Cedar Rapids man accused of distributing heroin that caused two overdose deaths will remain in jail …
News Apr. 29, 2015 5:13 pm3918d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 27-year-old Marion woman was released Wednesday pending trial on federal charges accusing her, along with her …
News Apr. 28, 2015 10:40 pm3919d ago
A federal judge said the video that three Cedar Rapids defendants made of themselves robbing a drug dealer of methamphetamine …
News Apr. 27, 2015 1:13 pm3921d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Police have surveillance video that shows Nicholas Luerkens stabbing Lynnsey Donald in a Marion grocery store parking …
News Apr. 25, 2015 3:56 pm3923d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 39-year-old man charged with manufacturing and distributing synthetic marijuana will remain in custody pending his federal …
News Apr. 24, 2015 10:17 pm3923d ago
MARION – As family members steeled themselves for a memorial service Friday evening for Lynnsey Donald, they said they were …
News Apr. 23, 2015 7:47 pm3924d ago
A disbarred Coralville lawyer, who was on FBI’s ‘most wanted” list since 2010 after being charged with mail fraud and …
News Jan. 25, 2023 1:37 pm1091d ago
Two Cedar Rapids police investigators will be honored Thursday with the highest federal service award in state for their work …

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