In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.

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    It wasn’t just her. What happened was the paper said the police knew she didn’t have a license and gave her a pass. The cops decided to punish the paper for calling out their corruption. Everything else just flows from incompetence, from the attorney general’s office to the judge.

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      I hear you there - there’s plenty of dumbfuckery laced throughout this story. I just wanted to draw out that particular piece of stupid in my comment, because it’s clear that this drunken trash heap of a human being is the root of the entire brouhaha.

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          That’s a good find. Unfortunately for that chief, he seems to have a talent for lighting his problems on fire instead of burying them. What could have been a quiet little small town scandal blew up to become national news. Good work, chief!

          And the greatest irony to me is that the newspaper reported on NONE of this. OK, they did cover the story where Karin went off the rails and aired her own dirty laundry at the town council meeting, but it’s not like that was any sort of secret.