High Point Inmate Dies After Being Found Unresponsive, Sheriff's Office Says

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Published September 16, 2021 at 4:56 PM EDT

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A Guilford County jail inmate in High Point has died.

The Guilford County Sheriff's Office says 27-year-old Dakota Stevens was found unresponsive but still breathing in his cell late Monday afternoon.

He was hospitalized but died the next day. Authorities are investigating, but at this point, foul play is not suspected, according to a release from the sheriff's office.

Stevens had been held in the High Point Detention Center for about a week after being arrested for missing a court appearance.

The Guilford County judicial calendar shows that Stevens was scheduled to be in court this month on a felony drug charge.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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