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HEADLINE: Man was on Raleigh police radar;
He’s been convicted and served prison time before for sex offenses on servicemen

BYLINE: Sarah Ovaska, Staff Writer

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RALEIGH — A 42-year-old man facing accusations that he drugged a man was known by police to lure military men to his house with promises of jobs and money and then force them to engage in sex acts, according to court documents. Rodney Brent Hodge, 42, of 1905 Castle Pines Drive, left the Wake County jail Monday evening on a $500,000 bond. He had been in the jail since Jan. 15, when Raleigh police arrested him and charged him with second-degree sexual offense after a man said he was drugged and molested in Hodge’s home in Northeast Raleigh’s Hedingham Golf Club community. Hodge could not be reached for comment.

In an affidavit for a search warrant recently made public, Raleigh Police Detective R.D. Miller indicated that police were aware Hodge pleaded guilty in 2003 to extortion charges. “Rodney Hodge has been investigated by the Raleigh Police Department in prior incidents that he would lure Marines or active-duty service personnel to his place of residence and perform sexual acts upon them,” Miller wrote in the affidavit. “Hodge would use extortion methods on them to arrange for further meetings and sexual encounters.”
When Hodge was convicted, Wake County prosecutors said he forced six Marines, between the ages of 18 to 22, into sexual acts by offering them alcohol and money and then threatening to tell the servicemen’s families and military officials about the encounters unless the rendezvous continued.

He served six months in state prison for those charges, according to the state Department of Correction. He also was given three years of probation and told he could not have contact with anyone in the military or he would face at least seven years of prison time, according to News & Observer archives.

Police think he used a similar approach in the most recent accusation. The victim in the most recent case was approached by Hodge on Jan. 12 in Wilmington. Hodge was driving a black Jaguar and said he was a hairdresser for several celebrities and needed a housesitter, according to Miller’s affidavit. The two set up an interview for the next day that took place at Hodge’s Raleigh home.

The man came to Raleigh for the interview and had some alcoholic drinks when he began to feel that he had been drugged. At one point, the man said Hodge held up several red pills and a bottle of clear liquid and said it was a legal way to get high, according to Miller’s affidavit. Police think Hodge then made sexual advances that the man was unable to resist because he had been drugged, the search warrant states.

Police seized pornographic magazines, medicine packaging, undeveloped film and a bottle of unknown liquid from the Castle Pines Drive home.

Hodge also was arrested Dec. 17 and charged with two counts of obtaining property under false pretenses, two counts of making harassing phone calls and three counts of communicated threats, court records show.