SANTA ANA – A man who authorities say has visible tattoos of white-supremacy symbols was charged with a hate crime on Tuesday for allegedly threatening to kill patrons at a Lake Forest hookah lounge.

He had on a T-shirt with an expletive against ISIS, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.

At about 9 p.m. on Friday, Andrew Alan Carruthers, 29, of Lake Forest allegedly walked into the BluFig Hookah Lounge and began acting aggressively toward customers who were mainly of Persian descent, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

An employee asked Carruthers to leave but he re-entered multiple times and threatened to kill individuals after showing “intimidating and aggressive behavior,” prosecutors said.

Sheriff’s deputies responded after a patron called 911 and, prosecutors said, Carruthers then ran along Lake Forest Drive before surrendering.

He was charged with one felony count of criminal threats with a sentencing enhancement for a hate crime, and two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and violation of civil rights.

If convicted, he faces up to six years in prison.