North Dakota Woman Charge With Burning Down Krain Township Home

(KNSI) – The Stearns County Sheriff’s Workplace says a North Dakota lady has been arrested and is suspected of arson.

On Thursday afternoon at 2:11, a deputy, a Minnesota Division of Pure Sources conservation officer, and the Freeport, Holdingford and Upsala Fireplace Departments responded to a blaze at a house on 248th Avenue in Krain Township. The residence is a complete loss.

In a press launch, the sheriff’s workplace says personnel made contact with 40-year-old Jamie Lynn Morin of Wahpeton who admitted on the scene to beginning the hearth. Bail has been set at $100,000. The incident continues to be beneath investigation by the Minnesota State Fireplace Marshal’s Workplace.

Within the prison criticism, it states that Morin had been residing on the dwelling for a couple of month. She had simply began a relationship with the proprietor, a 52-year-old man. A neighbor picked her up after he had pushed over to the house to examine on the welfare of any occupants and noticed her strolling south on 248th Avenue. He introduced Morin again to the scene the place he overheard her inform the deputy that she had began the hearth.

The criticism says Morin had develop into upset and took a propane torch to a pile of garments within the laundry room. A 20-pound propane cylinder was discovered by investigators with the Fireplace Marshal’s Workplace close to the underside of the basement staircase. Additionally situated was a plumber’s torch.

Nobody was inside the house when the hearth was began.

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