{"id":11599,"date":"2025-10-18T17:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11599\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:11:22","slug":"border-patrol-agent-dies-had-been-accused-of-drunken-attack-on-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11599\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol agent dies; had been accused of drunken attack on police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was arrested on suspicion of drunkenly fighting Long Beach police last month<\/a> was found dead in a Riverside County home on Friday, law enforcement officials said.<\/p>\n

Isaiah Hodgson, 29, was found dead about 12:45 p.m. in a home in the 25000 block of Avocet Circle in an unincorporated area of Hemet, the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen deputies arrived, they located the male and pronounced him deceased. Deputies did not locate any evidence of foul play,\u201d the statement read. <\/p>\n

Natalin Daldalian, communications director for the L.A. County public defender\u2019s office, which was representing Hodgson in his criminal case, asked the media to \u201crespect his family\u2019s privacy during this time\u201d and did not elaborate on a cause of death.<\/p>\n

The agent\u2019s death was first reported by L.A. Taco.<\/a><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately offer any comment. <\/p>\n

Hodgson played a visible role in the Trump administration\u2019s intensive immigration enforcement efforts in Southern California over the last few months. <\/p>\n

He was involved in the controversial detention of Adrian Martinez,<\/a> a U.S. citizen, who was accused on June 17 of interfering in immigration arrests at a Walmart in Pico Rivera, according to Martinez\u2019s defense attorneys. <\/p>\n

Agents rushed the 20-year-old and shoved him to the ground after he confronted them as they tried to arrest one of his co-workers. Video from the scene shows officers dragging Martinez to a truck. Although U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli publicly accused Martinez of assaulting an officer, video from the scene did not show Martinez striking anyone. He was indicted on a charge of conspiring to impede a federal officer last week. <\/a><\/p>\n

Roughly three weeks after the incident with Martinez, Hodgson was \u201coff-duty, intoxicated and armed with a handgun\u201d at a restaurant in the Shoreline Village area of Long Beach when he approached a female in the women\u2019s restroom, according to a statement issued last month by the Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office. The woman complained to restaurant staff, who asked Hodgson to leave because guns were not allowed inside the eatery.<\/p>\n

Long Beach police responded to the scene and contacted Hodgson, who fought with officers as they tried to detain him. Officers eventually subdued him with a stun gun, according to a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman. Hodgson \u201crefused to provide employment information\u201d when questioned by officers, one of whom suffered a minor injury during the scuffle, police said. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors charged Hodgson with three counts of resisting arrest, one count of battery causing injury to a police officer and several misdemeanor weapons offenses. He was due back in court in late September, records show. <\/p>\n

Both the district attorney\u2019s office and Long Beach police referred questions to the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department. <\/p>\n

Times staff writer Brittny Mejia contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was arrested on suspicion of drunkenly fighting Long Beach police last month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10769,7504,237,9147,10772,339,6246,4987,10768,131,133,132,10771,10774,346,10770,10773,2489],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-adrian-martinez","tag-agent","tag-arrest","tag-battery","tag-charge","tag-death","tag-department","tag-footage","tag-isaiah-hodgson","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-police","tag-natlain-daldalian","tag-office","tag-peace-officer","tag-riverside-county-sheriff","tag-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}