The man who held law officers at bay for hours in April 2019 after he refused to leave a local residence will serve 16 months in prison after pleading guilty to felony criminal threat recently in Anderson County District Court. Twenty six year old Joseph “Theo” Dalton of Garnett had been in the Anderson County Jail in Garnett since his arrest April 24th. Daulton became involved in a dispute with his grandmother, Joy Dalton, the morning of the incident at her home at 608 Maple. She was apparently able to leave the home and, with a family friend, notified police that Theo Daulton, a convicted felon, was still at the residence with a firearm, in violation with the terms of his release. Garnett law officers responded to the residence, but Daulton barricaded himself in the home and refused to come out. He gave up hours later as a Special Tactics team from Coffey County was moments away from moving on the home
