The Marion County Record had been looking into allegations of misconduct against the local police chief just months ago, according to the paper’s publisher, raising concerns about their motives.
This entire case looks like a city that hates they were investigated by a reporter. Things I’ve read include that the paper was thrown out of a public event because the DUI person didn’t like them. The City Attorney that is not releasing the affidavit used to get the warrant is the owner of the hotel the DUI person runs their restaurant at. The only person not part of the newspaper that had their home raided was the lone city council member that refused to give the DUI person a good review to the liquor board for her license. The sheriff was looked into for alleged past crimes… it all reads like a city that is pissed the newspaper looked into them, they didn’t even run the DUI story and were apparently still looking into the sheriff so a story hadn’t come out yet.
