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Luke Nozicka/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(MARION, Kan.) Marion County, Kansas, has said it will return evidence seized in a controversial police raid of a local newspaper after an attorney review.
A search warrant for the newspaper s offices had been acquired based on a probable cause affidavit alleging that computer crimes had been committed at the location. However, Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey wrote in a statement Wednesday that he had come to the conclusion that "insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and items seized."
Ensey said that the city will "work with the Marion County Record, or their representative, to coordinate the prompt return of all seized items."
The controversy began when police executed a search warrant Friday on the newspaper and on the home of its co-owner, 98-year-old Joan Meyer, the Marion Police Department confirmed in