Miller County officials investigating inmate death at county detention center

MILLER COUNTY, Ark. (KSLA) - The Miller County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of an inmate.

The inmate, Dominique Steel, 30, was being held at the Miller County Detention Center before his death.

Investigators with the sheriff’s office say the control room operator was told Steel was sick. When medical personnel got there, they found Steel unconscious and took him to a Texarkana hospital.

Steel was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

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Sheriff Wayne Easley says foul play is not suspected, however, Steel’s body is being sent to the state crime lab for an autopsy to determine the inmate’s cause of death.