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Drugs suspected in house fire

Bentonville Police are investigating what they believe to be methamphetamine and other drug evidence at the residence where five girls died in a fire early this morning.

Killed in the fire at 402 S.W. B St. were Kristan Frazier, 13; Kimberly Frazier, 11; Katelyn Mahmens, 8; Kaila Frazier, 8, and Kyla Frazier, 5.

Parents Jamie Dale Frazier and Karry Mahmens Frazier were awakened by a smoke detector at around 1:20 a.m. They could not reach the second floor, where the girls were, because of smoke and fire in the staircase, Chief Dan White said.

The Bentonville Fire Department, just a block and a half away from the house, arrived at 1:22 a.m. They found the girls' bodies in one room upstairs.

Bentonville Police served a drug-related search warrant at 8 a.m. based on what police observed when they responded earlier to the fire and collected several items. The bodies of the children were sent to the Crime Lab for evaluation.

Posted by Leslie Newell Peacock on March 25, 2008 03:34 PM | Permalink

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OMG. I just got a horrible sinking sensation in my gut reading about the girls in one room upstairs.

A tragic ending for such a useless reason.

Posted by: Earl | March 25, 2008 03:57 PM

I just heard on Ch 11 that 'a small amount of methamphetamine' was found. Authorities do NOT suspect it was was a drug lab.

Careful of these rumors please.

Posted by: 70%er | March 25, 2008 05:48 PM

Heart breaking sadness.

Posted by: Cato | March 25, 2008 07:19 PM

The news reports that DHS had been called to the house several times, and that drugs, including pot and meth were found on the scene. No evidence that meth was being cooked in the house. A space heater is the likely cause of the fire.
How tragic.

Posted by: BlueRidge | March 25, 2008 10:11 PM

Terrible story.
I'm hoping like hell I don't get that claim to work.

Posted by: RickBaber | March 25, 2008 11:16 PM

Space heater probably means substandard housing, or possibly that the gas was turned off.

Posted by: John A Arkansawyer | March 26, 2008 06:11 AM

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