Off-duty Border Patrol agent charged with assaulting a police officer while resisting arrest in Long Beach

An armed off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was charged with assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest.

Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 29, was arrested in the Shoreline Village parking lot in Long Beach on July 7. If convicted, Hodgson faces a possible maximum sentence of seven years in state prison. Hodgson was arraigned in Long Beach. His next court date is scheduled for July 17.

"The conduct exhibited by Mr. Hodgson, a border patrol agent who has the duty to uphold the law and protect its citizens, is unacceptable and deeply troubling," said L.A. County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman. 

Hodgson was charged with four felony counts and three misdemeanor counts. Hodgson was charged with felonies of resisting an executive officer and battery with injury on a peace officer. He was also charged with the misdemeanors of exhibiting a concealed firearm in public, having a concealed firearm on person and carrying a loaded firearm on one's person. He allegedly engaged in violent conduct while committing the above offenses.

The court has ordered that Hodgson not possess any firearms, not leave the State of California, and attend at least three alcohol counseling meetings a week as a condition of his release.

On July 7, Hodgson was allegedly off-duty, intoxicated, and armed with a handgun while at a restaurant in the Shoreline Village in Long Beach. Hodgson allegedly entered the women's restroom, where he approached a female who observed his handgun and firearm magazine.

Hodgson reportedly left the restaurant soon after the woman alerted the restaurant's manager that Hodgson was armed and in the women's restroom.

Outside of the restaurant in the parking lot, Hodgson was allegedly approached by a security guard who saw Hodgson holding a firearm magazine along with a firearm on his waistband. He allegedly asked Hodgson to leave multiple times as he informed Hodgson that firearms were not permitted on the property. Long Beach police officers responded to the scene after receiving a call about a person with a gun. When they arrived, they reportedly observed Hodgson intoxicated and unwilling to cooperate with their commands as they tried to detain him. As Hodgson resisted arrest, he allegedly became agitated and physical with the officers, injuring one of them.