SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA (MPG) - At 1:53 a.m. on Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center received a call from a male subject in the 1400 block of Mission Avenue in Sacramento County.  The male stated that the people who were in his house to repair a gas leak were instead eating his food and he had them at gunpoint.  Moments later dispatch heard a single gunshot; the subject then stated he shot someone.  Deputies arrived at the residence and with assistance from dispatch, calmed the subject and convinced him to walk out of the residence where deputies detained him without incident.

Deputies entered the home to search for a victim(s) but found no one else in the residence.  It was evident that a shot had been fired inside and a gun was located.  The subject and sole occupant of the house at the time of the incident was identified as Bradley Imre Bodai (38).  Bodai was showing signs of a mental health crisis.  Due to Bodai’s acute state of mental health, a Gun Violence Restraining Order was sought and signed by a judge at approximately 5:58 a.m.  A search of the residence revealed a massive cache of guns, ammunition, weaponry hardware and ballistic safety equipment.  A large gun safe contained what appeared to be 3 sticks of dynamite with a charge timer which prompted an evacuation order of a half mile radius affecting 1800 residences.  Sacramento Sheriff’s Office Explosive Ordinance Detail (EOD), Special Investigative Intelligence Bureau (SIIB) as well as the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, State DOJ and Alcohol-Tobacco-Firearms (ATF) converged on the scene to assist with the evacuation and search for and inventory of the firearms. 

The dynamite turned out to be an authentic looking imitation.  Approximately 30,000 AK-47 rounds, 5,000 AR-15 rounds and tens of thousands of semiautomatic handgun rounds were recovered.  In addition to 21 semiautomatic handguns, 4 revolvers, 18 rifles and 3 shotguns, investigators found 3 Polish Made Grenade Launchers, many armor piercing rounds, firearm silencers, equipment to manufacture firearm silencers and an array of ballistic safety equipment.  Some of the weapons had been modified to be considered an assault rifle under California Penal Code.  All of the items seized are being held as evidence in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office Property Warehouse.

Initially Bodai was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on a single misdemeanor charge of Discharge of a Firearm in a Grossly Negligent Manner and placed on a mental health hold.  He has since been add-booked with 19 felony charges of Possession of an Assault Weapon and is being held on $250,000 Bail.  At this time, no further suspects are outstanding.  No further information is available.