Mountain Home man arrested on felony charges after punishment with belt leaves bruises

A Mountain Home man is facing felony charges for battery of two minor boys with a belt as a form of punishment after it left the children with bruises. Forty-five-year-old Dylon Patrick Jackson is facing two counts of third degree domestic battery.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office, the boys’ mother returned home from working out of town and discovered her sons had extensive bruising on various parts of their bodies. They told their mother they had been disciplined by a family member.

During an interview with investigators at the sheriff’s office, the two boys said they were playing outside when they started a small fire. They said the family member saw the fire, instructed them to come inside and struck them both multiple times with a belt as a form of punishment for starting the fire.

Jackson is free after posting $25,000 bond.

PREVIOUS DOMESTIC BATTERY CONVICTION

Jackson has a previous domestic battery conviction out of Boone County involving his then girlfriend at the time.

According to court records in that case from 2020, a sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to the emergency room for a female who had been assaulted. The deputy noted the victim had injuries to her forehead, lower leg, both arms, nose and one eye.

The victim told the deputy Jackson had gotten upset because she had gotten a friend request on Facebook the day before. She says he yelled at her most of the night, and then in the early morning hours, started striking her with objects. He began by hitting her in the leg with a fireplace shovel. He then hit her in the face with the butt end of a pistol. Jackson then retrieved a shotgun and hit her in the head with the butt end of the gun. The victim says at one time, he pointed the shotgun between her eyes and said he was going to kill her. During the altercation, Jackson took the victim’s three month old son and threw him on the couch. The victim’s other son was also present during the altercation.

After the spat, Jackson made the victim take a shower to clean the blood off of her. He then told her to have her mother take her to the hospital and to tell her she had been in a four-wheeler accident.

For that incident, he was charged with felony counts of first degree domestic battery, aggravated assault on a family or household member, first degree endangering the welfare of a minor, false imprisonment, first degree terroristic threatening and a penalty enhancement for committing a felony with a firearm.

Through a negotiated plea deal, Jackson was given 120 months of probation on the domestic battery and false imprisonment charges and 72 months probation for the aggravated assault, terroristic threatening and endangering the welfare of a minor charges.

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