Crime & Safety
Former Lakeville Principal Found Dead In Jail Cell: Report
He had been sentenced to eight years in prison in 2019 for identity theft, stalking and burglary.
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LAKEVILLE, MN — Former Lakeville principal Christopher Jerome Endicott, 53, was found dead in his cell in Crow Wing County jail on Saturday, according to a report from The St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Endicott, formerly of Apple Valley, was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2019 for identity theft, stalking and burglary, the report said.
He had been in the jail on a Minnesota Department of Corrections warrant and was released to the jail from a prison to participate in the Challenge Incarceration Program, according to the report.
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Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was asked to investigate his cause of death, the publication reported.
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