Summary based on the NamUs case record (NC999659820) and
1 other sourceDakota Lee Pfeilsticker, a 17-year-old male from Augusta County, Virginia, was last seen on June 6, 2024. Public information from the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office identifies him as a white male and states that he was 17 years old at the time. Authorities characterized the disappearance as a runaway juvenile case. The available missing-person records identify Augusta County as the location associated with his disappearance, while law-enforcement information reported that he had last been
seen in the Stuarts Draft area.
The circumstances surrounding the beginning of the case were unusual in that Dakota was reportedly not reported missing immediately after he was last seen. According to information attributed to the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office, a family member reported him missing several days after his June 6 disappearance. The sheriff’s office then asked the public for assistance in locating the teenager. Contemporary reports described him as a runaway juvenile rather than publicly alleging that he had been the victim of a crime. Authorities also circulated identifying information to help distinguish Dakota from other missing juveniles, including his physical description and the name he was known to use.
The public record provides only limited information about what happened after Dakota was last seen. Law-enforcement information indicated that investigators were attempting to determine his whereabouts and that there was reason to believe he might have traveled beyond Virginia, including a possible connection to the White Sulphur Springs area of West Virginia. However, the publicly available material does not establish an exact time when he may have left Augusta County, the precise route he may have taken, or who, if anyone, may have accompanied him. Those gaps leave the sequence of events after his last confirmed sighting largely undocumented in publicly accessible sources.
Dakota’s name also appears in Virginia missing-children records maintained through the Virginia Missing Children’s Clearinghouse, where the case is identified as USVAVA24-3060. That record confirms June 6, 2024, as the missing date and Augusta County, Virginia, as the associated location, providing an additional official-record connection to the case. The available record identifies Dakota Lee Pfeilsticker as a white male, although it does not provide a detailed public chronology of investigative activity following the initial report.
The disappearance is especially significant because Dakota was only 17 when he was last seen, and the circumstances publicly documented by authorities leave considerable uncertainty about his movements afterward. The information available online does not establish an exact date on which the matter may have been resolved, nor does it provide a sufficiently detailed public account of subsequent events to reconstruct his whereabouts from the time he disappeared. What can be established is that Dakota Lee Pfeilsticker, a 17-year-old male from Augusta County, was last seen on June 6, 2024, was subsequently reported missing by a family member, and became the subject of a public search by the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office. Overall, the case remains defined in the public record by Dakota’s disappearance from the Stuarts Draft area, the delayed report of his absence, his classification as a runaway juvenile, and the unresolved gaps surrounding his movements after he was last seen.Last Seen: Jun 6, 2024
