CBP Agent Charged with Assaulting a Police Officer

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Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged Customs and Border Protection agent Isaiah Anthony Hodgson with three felony counts of resisting an executive officer, one felony count of battery with injury on a peace officer, and various misdemeanor charges for carrying a loaded gun in an incident on 7 July 2025.

The DA’s office also alleges Hodgson “engaged in violent conduct while committing the above offenses, indicating a serious danger to society.”

Hodgson pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Hodgson was involved as an agent 24 June in the detention of USA citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez after Martinez insisted they needed a warrant to arrest an older man they were detaining outside a Walmart at Pico Rivera, California. In that incident, a crowd gathered around, shouting that Martinez is a citizen. Several people in the crowd recorded video, which showed him talking with agents and the agents taking him to the ground. More agents arrived in an unmarked vehicle and emerged with guns drawn, aiming at the crowd. Prosecutors tried to find a way to charge Martinez with a felony but there were several videos showing otherwise to contend with, so he was released 27 June.

Charges against Hodgson are unrelated to that episode, and instead relate to his conduct while off duty on 7 July. He was allegedly at a Shoreline Village restaurant, drunk and armed with a handgun. He went into the women’s restroom and approached a woman there. She told the restaurant’s manager.

Hodgson went outside. A security guard saw him with the gun and a magazine for it, told him that firearms are not permitted there and asked him to leave.

Long Beach Police responded, saw that he was intoxicated and arrested him. The District Attorney’s office says he resisted and “became agitated and physical with the officers, injuring one of them.”

During arraignment, a judge ordered that Hodgson must not possess guns, must stay in California, and must attend at least three alcohol counseling meetings each week as a condition of his release pending trial.

Conviction on the charges he is facing could put Hodgson in state prison for up to seven years.

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