Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers and cellphones seized in raid on newspaper

By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER
Associated Press

MARION, Kansas (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor says a police raid on a small weekly newspaper wasn’t supported by evidence. The newspaper’s staff scrambled to print the new edition Wednesday without their cellphones and computers seized in the raid. The White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says Wednesday that the raid raises concerns over press freedoms. The Kansas prosecutor says in a news release Wednesday that there wasn’t enough evidence to establish a “legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.” The front-page of the Marion County Record Wednesday read: “SEIZED … but not silenced.”