Suspect Charged in Thief River Falls Case: Victim Found Bound and Burned

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN (trfnews.i234.me) Formal charges have now been filed against a Thief River Falls, Minnesota man, after a …
the female victim in a murder an arson investigation and Thief River Falls has not been named yet pending positive identification from the Ramsey County Medical Examiner however the suspect in this case 23 year old Devin paczynski of Thief River Falls has now been formally charged with second degree murder and first degree arson according to the criminal complaint on Wednesday evening firefighters responded to a blaze in the upstairs apartment of this home and found a female body inside the apartment the female was lying face down in the kitchen and had extensive burns on the back of her body the hands looked to be bound behind her back her feet appeared to be bound by some type of material close insky lived at the apartment with james chaga babe who had already been arrested last Friday following the drug investigation here three and a half hours after the fire Wednesday night closed in ski was arrested in Thief River during a traffic stop he was a passenger in a vehicle according to court documents while under arrest he uttered the following in front of officers quote they had nothing to do with it was all me unquote officers also have text messages between Kaczynski and Chaka Bey while Chaka Bey was in jail one says quote I’m doing them before I lean unquote the pair had been under a drug investigation that involved a confidential informant making purchases back at the Deaf scene a fire marshal concluded that gasoline had been used to start the fire if convicted the second-degree murder charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison the first-degree arson charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years I’m Neil Berg reporting for i-news TV