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By Mike Barnhardt
Enterprise Record

It took more than two years for DNA test results to be returned from the state lab, but after it was, the Davie County Sheriff’s Office went into action.
The result: a Mocksville man was arrested last week, charged with raping a teen girl in 2022.
Dalton Deo McGee, 27, of Landis Court, Mocksville, was arrested in Iredell County by the N.C. Highway Patrol on Jan. 23, and was transferred to the Davie County Detention Center where he was presented in front of a judge and given a $150,000 bond, charged with second-degree forcible rape.
Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Brian Jacobs said a the initial call came in April, 2022, when a 16-year-old girl claimed she had been raped by a then 24-year-old man.
The girl was examined at Brenner’s Children Hospital, and after about a week of investigating including multiple interviews and search warrants, evidence was sent to the N.C. State Crime Laboratory on April 19, 2022.
Those results came back in June of 2024.
Investigators had already identified a suspect, and with a search warrant obtained his DNA, which was sent to the lab on July 18, 2024. That DNA comparison came back on Jan. 15, and a warrant was soon issued for McGee’s arrest.
Anyone with more information on this case is asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 336-751-6238, or sheriff@dcsonc.com, or leave an anonymous message at https://davie-so-nc.zuercherportal.com/#/submit_tip.