Former Cornell Employee Arrested for Death Threats

Jerry Gordon, a 56-year-old former Cornell employee, was sentenced to two years in prison for threatening to kill a man from Aurora, New York, according to a statement made by the United States Department of Justice on Nov. 25.

From April 22-25, 2025, Gordon sent the Aurora resident multiple threatening text messages, one of which stated that he would “drink your blood from the chalice that I will make out of your heart.”

On April 25, Gordon boarded a plane from Colorado, where he currently lives, to Syracuse, which is about 40 miles from Aurora. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested him upon exiting the plane…

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