LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — An off-duty Border Patrol agent has been charged with assaulting a Lengthy Seaside police officer earlier this month exterior a restaurant, authorities stated.
The incident occurred within the Shoreline Village car parking zone on July 7.
Based on the Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace, Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 29, was drunk and armed on the restaurant and reportedly entered the ladies’s toilet.
Whereas inside, he approached a girl who noticed his handgun, in response to investigators. He reportedly left quickly after the girl alerted the supervisor that Hodgson was armed, authorities stated.
The DA’s workplace stated Hodgson was allegedly approached by a safety guard exterior the restaurant who noticed Hodgson holding a firearm journal and a firearm on his waistband.
Lengthy Seaside law enforcement officials responded to the scene and tried to detain Hodgson, however he refused to cooperate, authorities stated.
“As Hodgson resisted arrest, he allegedly turned agitated and bodily with the officers, injuring one in all them,” stated the DA’s workplace in a press release.
Hodgson was charged with three felony counts of resisting an govt officer; one felony rely of battery with damage on a peace officer; one misdemeanor rely of exhibiting a concealable firearm in public; one misdemeanor rely of getting a hid firearm on individual; and one misdemeanor rely of carrying a loaded firearm on one’s individual.
The 29-year-old was due in court docket Thursday.
He is been ordered to not possess any firearms and he cannot go away the state. He additionally has to attend three alcohol counseling conferences every week as a situation of his launch.
Hodgson was reportedly one of many brokers concerned in an immigration raid final month in Pico Rivera through which Adrian Martinez – a 20-year-old U.S. citizen – was detained, in response to Martinez’s lawyer.
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Adrian Martinez is talking out after he was detained final month whereas making an attempt to cease federal brokers in Pico Rivera from taking away another person.
“This agent occurred to not have a masks on the day of Adrian’s arrest, and due to that, he was shortly recognized and linked to the incident in Lengthy Seaside,” learn a press release from The Miller Legislation Group. “The Border Patrol agent was arrested for an off responsibility act of felony violence, which is indicative of the violence steadily seen in ICE/Border Patrol arrests. The arrest confirms the fears many have proper now concerning violent, unaccountable and unhinged federal brokers roaming the streets.”
A spokesperson for the Division of Homeland Safety instructed Eyewitness Information the matter is underneath investigation.
If convicted as charged, Hodgson faces a doable most sentence of seven years in state jail.
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