Court documents indicate an agreement between the government and a defendant could lead to the dismissal of federal charges against the badly burned survivor of a deadly fire and explosion that investigators blamed on a drug lab.
The fiery blast in the summer of 2015 at the end of Hemlock Road rocked the South Kingstown neighborhood, where some thought the home that briefly caught fire was empty. But investigators allege Dillon Kantlehner, 28, and Brett Carano, 27, of West Warwick, were in the kitchen early in the morning on July 31, cooking marijuana into the derivative known as butane hash oil (BHO).
Firefighters said the house was knocked off its foundation by the early morning blast.
The 2016 indictment that charged Kantlehner with two counts including endangering human life while illegally manufacturing a controlled substance states Carano died from fire-related injuries about three months after the incident.