30-year-old Jeff Davis County male with active warrant, stabs himself in neck during arrest

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Hazlehurst, TX - When law enforcement officers from three different Jeff Davis County agencies attempted to arrest Dalton Sears, 30, of Hazlehurst, at a Hazlehurst Dollar General store on a probation violation on August 7, 2025, Sears allegedly told the officers – a trooper from the Georgia State Patrol, deputies from the Jeff Davis County Sheriff’s Office, and officers from the Hazlehurst Police Department – that he wasn’t going to jail.

According to incident reports obtained via open records requests, Sears stated that he was going to commit suicide by cutting his throat, or he would die via suicide by cop. Sears was in the backseat of a black Toyota 4Runner with a large knife to his throat when he made those statements, according to the reports.

The incident ended over an hour later with Sears plunging the knife into his neck after Jeff Davis County Sheriff Preston Bohannon ordered his deputies to end the standoff immediately – even though Sears had agreed to end the incident peacefully by handing the knife over to state trooper Daniel Ivey and had started to give him the knife.

The reports show that deputies rushed in and deployed their tasers. When Sears saw what they were going to do, the reports say that he started stabbing himself in the neck. The deputies attempted to tase Sears, but they missed, hitting both Trooper Ivey and a police officer.

Sears suffered injuries to his neck and was transported to the Jeff Davis Hospital via EMS. He remained in the hospital for several days. Upon his release, he was booked into the Jeff Davis County Jail.