Patrick Shawn Gordon of Salem, Massachusetts (Essex County Superior Court, 2677CR00083)

Full name

Patrick Shawn Gordon

Residence

Salem, Massachusetts

Case

Commonwealth v. Patrick Gordon, Essex County Superior Court, docket 2677CR00083

Custody

Held on $100,000 cash bail since his arraignment in December 2025

Counsel

Attorney Philip Doherty

What is publicly known

Patrick Gordon lived in Salem, Massachusetts when State Police searched his home and arrested him on December 22, 2025. He was arraigned the next day in Salem District Court, and bail was set at $100,000 cash. A grand jury later returned a ten-count indictment, filed in Essex County Superior Court on March 30, 2026. The charges are listed here.

The Commonwealth’s account of the investigation is its seven-page probable-cause-for-arrest statement. Among other things it says that Mr. Gordon holds no Massachusetts license to carry a firearm.

No trial has been held and no charge has been proven. He is presumed innocent.

His connection to the materials in the case

Mr. Gordon was a subscriber to Invention Incarnate, a YouTube channel that publishes technical instruction on smoke compositions and ignition systems, and a buyer of chemical kits sold under its brand. Invention Incarnate, which maintains this site, states that many of the chemicals shown in the Attorney General’s photograph of seized items are components of those kits. That is Invention Incarnate’s account. It has not been tested in court, and it does not address the firearm counts. About Invention Incarnate.

What this page leaves out

This site does not publish Mr. Gordon’s home address, his date of birth, his employer, or the names of his family members. The Commonwealth’s arrest statement recounts three police reports that concern his health; this site notes that they exist, because the statement relies on them, and withholds their details. Claims made by the people who contacted police about him are reported only as they appear in that statement, and are attributed to it.