Border Patrol agent charged with drunkenly attacking Long Beach cop while off duty
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Isiah Hodgson, a 29-year-old off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent, was charged with multiple offenses including resisting arrest and battery against a police officer. The incident occurred in Long Beach when Hodgson, intoxicated and armed, entered a women's restroom and approached a female patron. He was asked to leave the premises after being discovered with a firearm. When police arrived, Hodgson resisted arrest, resulting in injury to one officer. He has been released on his recognizance but is prohibited from possessing firearms or leaving the state.
Isiah Hodgson, 29, was charged with three counts of resisting arrest, one count of battery causing injury to a police officer and several misdemeanor weapons offenses in connection with the July 7 episode in the Shoreline Village area, a busy tourist section of Long Beach not far from where the Queen Mary is docked.
Hodgson was 'off-duty, intoxicated and armed with a handgun' inside a restaurant when he entered the women's restroom and approached a female, according to a statement from the district attorney's office.
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,
Hodgson was released on his own recognizance, but is not allowed to possess firearms or leave the state, according to the D.A.'s office.
Read at Los Angeles Times
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