cbs's elaine quijano reports on the potential constitutional fallout. >> reporter: surveillance video shows police in marion, kansas, raiding the offices of the marion county record last friday, seizing computers, servers, and cell phones. the paper's owner, eric meyer, says officers also searches his house, where his 98-year-old mother lived. she died the next day, he says, from the stress. >> it's intimidation. i think that the whole point of this was intimidation. >> reporter: police say they suspected the paper of identity theft and unlawful acts. meyer says the paper obtained information that a local restaurant owner had a dui and was driving without a license for 14 years. that owner says the information was obtained illegally while meyer says it was provided by a source and confirmed by public records. the paper was also investigating allegations the new police chief, gideon cody, had left his previous job with the kansas city police to avoid a demotion for alleged sexual misconduct. meyer ultimately decided not to publish either story. >> everyone has to be protected against u