Essex County Superior Court · Salem, Massachusetts
Patrick Gordon: Commonwealth v. Patrick Shawn Gordon, Docket 2677CR00083
Patrick Shawn Gordon of Salem, Massachusetts was arrested in December 2025 and is charged in a ten-count indictment in Essex County Superior Court. This site collects the public record of the case and sets out, with sources, which facts are disputed.
- Case
- Commonwealth v. Patrick Gordon
- Court
- Essex County Superior Court, Salem, Massachusetts
- Docket
- 2677CR00083 (indictment ESCR2026-83, filed March 30, 2026)
- Prosecution
- Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
- Status
- Pending. Mr. Gordon is held on $100,000 cash bail and is presumed innocent.
Summary
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office alleges that Patrick Gordon unlawfully possessed firearms, firearm parts and chemicals at his home in Salem. The indictment charges ten counts, including possession of a machine gun, possession of silencers, possession of an incendiary material, and manufacturing fireworks without a license. These are allegations. No court has decided them.
According to the Commonwealth’s probable-cause-for-arrest statement, the
investigation began with a tip on December 15, 2025 that magazines ordered by Mr. Gordon had been shipped
to a relative’s home in New Hampshire. Three days later police followed him, expecting him to collect
them. The statement says a State Police trooper went into a New Hampshire gun shop behind him
and stated that he saw gun magazines
in the bag Mr. Gordon carried out
[Exhibit 1]. The store’s sales journal for that day
records a sale at that time of four boxes of Federal small pistol primers, invoice 101943, for $52.00
[Exhibit 2]. The statement’s own list of what was
found in his home four days later includes 400 Number 100 primers
and reports no magazines (statement, pp. 5–7). Boxes of the primer brand appear
in the photograph of seized items that the Attorney General’s Office published
[Exhibit 3].
Mr. Gordon’s supporters contend that the trooper’s reported observation was wrong and that it matters to the legality of the searches that followed. Whether it does is a legal question that has not been decided, and the search-warrant affidavits themselves are impounded by the court until December 22, 2026. Read the full account, with the documents.
Exhibit 2a
Explore the record
- What happenedThe December 18, 2025 surveillance, the sales record, the Attorney General’s photograph, and what is still unknown.
- The chargesThe ten indicted counts, each with its statute.
- TimelineFrom the surveillance to the indictment to today.
- The recordThe documents and photographs this site relies on.
- INV-83 smoke deviceWhat the device is, according to its maker’s notice to law enforcement.
- Patrick GordonWho he is and where his case stands.
Latest updates
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Court docket shows the Patrick Gordon case began with two charges, not ten
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Written request filed for the search-warrant files in the Patrick Gordon case
What this site is
A record, not an argument. Each factual statement is tied to a court document, a business record, an official publication or an identified person, and the site says so where something is unverified or unknown. It is maintained by a supporter of Mr. Gordon, and that is disclosed on every page.