KC-area mom feared for child after Barbie packaging tested for fentanyl, suit says

A Jackson County mother is suing an Independence discount store after she said she purchased a Barbie for her daughter that was contaminated with illegal drugs.

The suit, filed Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, alleges that Heather Guier bought her 4-year-old daughter — referred to only as K.G. in documents — the doll on March 20 at Cargo Largo and had no idea that it was a potential danger until police called her the next day.

Lab tests later confirmed, the suit said, that a substance on the Barbie doll packaging was cocaine with trace amounts of fentanyl…

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