A Border Patrol agent who pulled out a gun in a women’s restroom in July while allegedly intoxicated at the Yard House in Long Beach’s Shoreline Village fought with arriving officers and hurled expletives while proclaiming his status as an agent, video obtained by the Southern California News Group shows.
Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 29, was charged with three counts of resisting an executive officer, a single count of battery against a police officer, and misdemeanor counts of exhibiting a concealable firearm in public, carrying a concealed weapon, and carrying a loaded firearm, court records show.
However, more than a month after he was charged, Hodgson was found dead inside his parents’ Hemet home. He died of cocaine toxicity, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau.
Just before 11:30 p.m. on July 7, police were called to the Yard House by a security guard after employees said Hodgson had taken a gun out of his waistband.
Hodgson later pulled the gun out around the security guard outside the restaurant as well; the guard did tell officers Hodgson never pointed it at him.
As officers arrive, surveillance video shows, Hodgson takes the gun and magazine out of his waistband and sets it down next to a palm tree, continues to walk toward the officers with his hands up and his shirt lifted. Four officers take him into custody, with one using a Taser twice as Hodgson continues to struggle with them.
“I’m BP,” Hodgson says during the struggle. “Are you guys stupid?”
Police would learn the gun was registered to the Department of Homeland Security, the parent organization of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
While in the back of a police SUV, Hodgson continues to yell, telling officers to call the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and Hemet police.
Meanwhile, inside the restaurant, one employee tells an officer that Hodgson was with a group of others for a couple of hours. They were cut off from being served alcohol at one point, a server says, leading most of them to leave, but Hodgson lingered.
He eventually went into the women’s bathroom, put the gun and magazine on a counter, called a woman “sweetie” and asked if she wanted to go on a date with him, the woman says to an officer, the interview captured by body-worn camera video.
Hodgson was taken to a hospital to be evaluated and, while there, told an officer he had been “doxxed” — a term that refers to a person’s private information being made public on the internet. He refuses to take a breath test and continues to be combative with officers, the video shows.
At the jail before booking, he refuses to answer when an officer asks if he’s a peace officer so they can house him in a separate area. He tells the officer he needs to call his training officer to tell him what happened.
Then, after the officer tries to assure Hodgson that he doesn’t think Hodgson is a bad person and he just made a mistake, Hodgson starts to demean himself.
“I made more than (expletive) one mistake man,” Hodgson says to the officer and recorded via a body-worn camera. “Everyone just (expletive) hates me here.
“Do you know how many (expletive) people are after me over here in Los Angeles?” he continued. “You’re having your (expletive) personal information pumped up online and on the (expletive) news. Have you ever had people standing up at your parents’ house because you’re over here in Los Angeles doing everything? That’s the (expletive) guy I am.”
About a month before his arrest, Hodgson was involved in the arrest of 20-year-old Adrian Martinez near a Pico Rivera Walmart on June 17, CBS Los Angeles reported. Hodgson was seen on video without a mask during that raid.
Martinez is a United States citizen but was charged in August with one count of conspiracy to impede a federal officer. He would tell the Southern California News Group that he thought immigration officers were too aggressive while arresting a man and did not identifying themselves. “All I remember is speaking up for that man and them attacking me,” Martinez said.
Federal officials countered with a charge that Martinez impeded or injured a federal officer.
In a GoFundMe page seeking funds for funeral costs, Hodgson was described as “a great man, brother, uncle, and son. Those of you who knew him know how he brightened up any room he walked in.”
In updated posts, they said Hodgson loved his dog Shooter, played football and wrestled in high school, was a firefighter for a forestry department and loved to fish.
Reporter Sierra van der Brug contributed to this report.