SALEM — The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (AGO), in partnership with the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) and the Salem Police Department, today announced that Patrick Gordon, 42, of Salem was arrested and arraigned following an investigation that recovered illegal firearm devices and large quantities of materials that could be used to make incendiary devices.
Gordon was arraigned in Salem District Court today on the charges of Possession of an Incendiary Device and Possession of an Assault Weapon. His bail was set at $100,000 and his next court hearing will be on January 20, 2026.
On December 15, MSP received information that Gordon, who does not have a valid License to Carry or Firearm Identification Card, had ordered and shipped large capacity magazines to his mother’s home in Bedford, New Hampshire. Investigators soon learned that over the past six months, Gordon had also ordered several firearm-related related items and a kit that can create four pounds of thermite to his apartment on Harbor Street in Salem.
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