A former Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been arrested and accused of using his badge to try to force a woman to have sex with him.<\/p>\n
Dohnya Dozier, 42, of Spring, was charged on Oct. 1 with attempted sexual assault and official oppression. He allegedly threatened a woman with arrest in April 2025 unless she had sex with him, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n
Dozier did not enter a plea during a hearing at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center on Monday. He was given a court-appointed attorney after telling the court he was unable to afford his own lawyer.<\/p>\n
During the hearing, prosecutors said footage from a body-worn camera showed Dozier responding to a trespassing call at a hotel. The footage also showed the woman in the back of a patrol vehicle.<\/p>\n
The camera recorded Dozier saying he wouldn’t call the district attorney if she would “hook up” with him, a prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
The woman allegedly went to another hotel with Dozier, but he left after she became upset. Deputies later contacted the woman, who told them about the encounter.<\/p>\n
Dozier told investigators that he had sexual encounters with as many as 12 women he met while in uniform, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Dozier has not worked as a sheriff’s deputy since December, when he\u00a0was accused of\u00a0sexual assault by another woman in a lawsuit filed in Harris County. He was placed on administrative leave by the sheriff’s office earlier that month and was fired in March.<\/p>\n
In the lawsuit, a woman said that Dozier assaulted her in a hospital room before driving her to a hotel. The lawsuit named Dozier, the sheriff’s office, the hospital and the hotel as defendants, but the lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed before any of the parties responded.<\/p>\n
Dozier began working for the sheriff’s office in 2023, according to state licensing records. He hasn’t worked for any other police agencies in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He permanently surrendered his peace officer’s license in April, according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n
Dozier’s bond was set at $60,000. As a condition of his release, Dozier is not allowed to work in law enforcement or security, or as a delivery driver.<\/p>\n
Official oppression is a misdemeanor that carries a possible punishment of up to one year in jail. Attempted sexual assault is a third-degree felony that carries a maximum punishment of up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Dozier is scheduled to return to court for a hearing in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been arrested and accused of using his badge to try…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-458083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}