The raid on local newspaper Marion County Record's elderly co-owner's home was sparked by Ryan Newell - the estranged husband of the restaurant owner who leaked her DUI information.

The paper did not publish the information they found about restauranteur Kari Newell, because they believed they were being used 'as a pawn in a contentious divorce' between her and Ryan.

Instead, they handed the information over to the police. The same officers then seized their computers and equipment, then raided the newspaper's owners' home on August 11 - and Joan Meyer, 98, died a day later following the shock.

Unredacted affidavits now reveal that Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody said the raids were based on the belief that reporter Phyllis Zorn unlawfully obtained the driving records of Kari Newell, according to CNN.

The tip about Newell's DUI was sent to Zorn by a woman called Pam Maag.

Maag said she received the records from Kari's estranged husband, Ryan Newell.

Kari Newell and her estranged husband Ryan Newell. Ryan (right) send information about Kari's 2008 DUI to a woman named Pam Maag, who then contacted the Marion County Record reporter

Pam Maag, who is Ryan Newell's friend, was the person who send Kari's DUI information to the newspaper

New footage of a raid on the home of Joan Meyer shows the spitfire 98-year-old tossing words at police just one day before she died mid-sentence

The search warrant that triggered the raids in the identity theft investigation was later withdrawn by county attorney Joel Ensey- since there was 'insufficient evidence' to justify why it was issued in the first place.

The driving record that triggered this ordeal is believed to show Kari Newell drove without a valid license after receiving a citation for driving under the influence in 2008.

She was trying to get a liquor license for her restaurant Chef’s Plate at Parlour 1886 - and information on her DUI may have blocked her from doing so.

Kari and Ryan Newell separated in September, and their divorce proceedings are still ongoing.

This is not the first time Ryan has been in the headlines. He was once charged with five misdemeanors for stalking and criminal use of a firearm against a Westboro Baptist Church family. He is also a double amputee after losing his limbs in Afghanistan.

Speaking about the information, Ryan told the Kansas City Star: 'None of this was done out of malice.

'If she got into a wreck and had a suspended driver’s license, I’m the one that would be on the hook for it. My insurance company wouldn’t cover anything, period.'

According to the affidavit, Zorn downloaded Newell's personal records just three minutes before someone using the name 'Kari Newell' downloaded the records.

This served as the basis for the probe and the raid, Cody said, because it seemed that 'downloading the document involved either impersonating the victim or lying about the reasons why the record was being sought.'

Bernie Rhodes, the newspaper's lawyer said: 'It is not a crime in America to be a reporter. These affidavits prove that the only so-called 'crime' Chief Cody was investigating was being a reporter.'

Publisher and editor Meyer said Zorn actually contacted the Department of Revenue before her online search and was instructed how to search records.

The reporter, asked to respond to the allegations that she used Newell's name to obtain Newell's personal information, said, 'My response is I went to a Kansas Department of Revenue website and that's where I got the information.'

She added: 'Not to my knowledge was anything illegal or wrong.'

Rhodes, the newspaper's attorney, said Zorn's actions were legal under both state and federal laws.

Using the subject's name 'is not identity theft,' Rhodes said. 'That's just the way of accessing that person's record.'

The newspaper had Newell's driver's license number and date of birth because a source - Pam Maag - provided it, unsolicited, Meyer said.

In the new video - released by the Marion County Record - the woman at one point rolls her walker right up to an officer and demands he wait outside

She even attempts to stop the men and refuses to answer their questions, replying 'I'm not going to tell you' when asked how many computers she has

Eric Meyer stands outside the Marion County Record's office, which was also raided

'Don't you touch any of that stuff,' the Marion County Record co-owner told cops in the newly released footage as she moved around her home with a walker. 'This is my house. You a*****e!'

Joan's son Eric Meyer has asserted that his mother, a lifelong journalist, died the day after the raid from being 'traumatized' by the incident.

At least six officers are seen searching Joan's home and sorting her belongings as she repeatedly tells them to leave.

'I don't want you in my house,' she says.

In the video - released by the Marion County Record - the woman at one point rolls her walker right up to an officer and demands he waits outside.

'Did your mother ever love you,' Joan asks the cop in the video, which amassed more than 23,000 views in a matter of hours.

'Get out of my house. You're trespassing,' she says to the man.

Two officers attempt to talk the woman down for the first minute of the video released by the newspaper while the four others continue the search.

Kari Newell - who accused the Marion County Record of getting information illegally about her previous DUI as she was trying to obtain a liquor license - triggered the police raid on Friday

Joan Meyer, 98, collapsed and died following the intense stress and grief she felt when her home was raided by the entirety of the Marion Police Department in Kansas - headed by Gideon Cody

The moment that police using 'Hitler tactics' raided the Marion County Record newsroom has been caught on camera - just a day before the paper's co-owner subsequently died

She even attempts to stop the men and refuses to answer their questions, replying 'I'm not going to tell you' when asked how many computers she has.

'I want to see what they're doing,' Joan says as she attempts to make her way around the couch to see what the officers are looking at.

The interaction with police inside her own home was so upsetting that she died the next day while in the middle of a conversation.

During the ordeal, it emerged that police chief Cody was also being investigated by the newspaper he raided over allegations of sexual misconduct.

Cody became chief of the Marion County Police Department in late April, after leaving the Kansas City police amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

Along with the raid on the Meyer residence and the newspaper offices being raided, Marion City Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel's home was also pillaged after Newell made a personal fiery attack on her in public last Monday.

During the council meeting on August 7 - four days before the raids - Newell stood up and accused the newspaper and Herbel of illegally obtaining information about her DUI arrest.

Clips show the meeting descended into chaos - with people speaking over one another, hands slamming on desks, and participants being stunned by Newell's incendiary accusations.