A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Long Beach police officer while off duty in July has died, officials said.

Isaiah Hodgson, 29, was confirmed to have died by Natlain Daldalian, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office, on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

Deputies were dispatched around 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 22 to a home on Avocet Circle in Valle Vista, an unincorporated community east of Hemet, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. They found Hodgson unresponsive and pronounced him dead at the scene.

Deputies did not find evidence indicating foul play, the department said. Information on his cause of death was not immediately available.

On July 11, Hodgson had pleaded not guilty to three felony counts of resisting an

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