The Record: Documents in the Patrick Gordon Case (Docket 2677CR00083)

Court records

Filed by the Commonwealth, or kept by the court

• Exhibit 1

  Probable-cause-for-arrest statement, page 4

  Photograph of page 4 of the probable-cause-for-arrest statement. It describes surveillance on December 18, 2025 and says a trooper stated that he observed the contents of a plastic bag to be gun magazines.

  Court record: the Commonwealth’s statement of probable cause for arrest, photographed. Underlining added by the photographer. The trooper’s name, a residential address and a license plate are redacted by this site.

• Exhibit 7

  Trial Court online docket, charge tab, for the case filed December 23, 2025

  Photograph of a computer screen showing a Massachusetts Trial Court docket page. File date 12/23/2025, next event 01/20/2026. Under Party Charge Information for Gordon, Patrick Shawn, Defendant, two charges are listed, each a felony with jurisdiction Salem and date of offense 12/22/2025: charge 1, incendiary device, chem/bio/nuclear weapon, possess, c. 266 § 102(a); charge 2, assault weapon, unlicensed sell/possess, c. 140 § 131M.

  Court record: the Massachusetts Trial Court’s public electronic docket, photographed from a computer screen and supplied by Invention Incarnate. The court name and docket number fall outside the frame. Cropped by this site to remove the browser’s address bar; nothing is redacted.

Business record

Stateline Guns, Ammo & Archery, Plaistow, New Hampshire

• Exhibit 2

  Stateline Guns, Ammo & Archery Sales/Return Journal, December 18, 2025, page 5 of 6

  Photograph of a printed Sales/Return Journal page listing invoices 101941 through 101944 on December 18, 2025. Invoice 101943 at 4:39 PM is highlighted: quantity 4, Federal 100 Champion Small Pistol primers, total 52 dollars.

  Store business record, printed January 15, 2026 and provided by the store. Highlighting by the store owner. Employee and other customers’ names are redacted.

• Exhibit 2a

  Invoice 101943, detail

  Close view of invoice 101943, dated 12/18/2025 4:39 PM: quantity 4, UPC 029465056223, Federal 100 Champion Small Pistol Multi Caliber Handgun 100 Per Box, subtotal 52.00, tax 0.00, total 52.00.

  Detail of Exhibit 2.

Official publications

Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, mass.gov

• Exhibit 3

  Photograph of seized items published by the Attorney General’s Office

  Photograph of a wooden table covered with containers, bags of powdered chemicals, a spool of wire and, at the left edge, blue boxes labeled Federal.

  Published on mass.gov with the Attorney General’s press release announcing the arraignment (December 2025). Reproduced here from a screen capture.

• Exhibit 3a

  Attorney General’s photograph, detail

  Close view of the table: two stacks of blue boxes labeled Federal, next to a spool of wire and small bags of hardware.

  Detail of Exhibit 3. The mouse pointer is from the screen capture.

• Exhibit 5

  Attorney General’s Office press release, headline

  Partial view of a mass.gov press release from the Office of the Attorney General. The visible part of the headline reads: Office Arraigns Salem Man For Possession, Create Explosive Devices.

  mass.gov, December 2025. Screen capture; the headline is cut off at both edges of the frame.

Other photographs and product documents

Not court records

• Exhibit 4

  A Stateline store bag holding boxes of Federal primers

  A white plastic shopping bag printed with THANK YOU in red, held up inside the store. A rectangular box can be made out through the plastic at the bottom of the bag.

  Photograph taken at the store in January 2026 by Invention Incarnate. It is a demonstration, not a photograph of the bag carried on December 18, 2025.

• Exhibit 6

  INV-83 Reloadable Smoke Device, product notice to law enforcement

  Product sheet titled INV-83 Reloadable Smoke Device with a photograph of a black vented canister and a block of text headed Warning, Law Enforcement Notice, followed by a list of kit contents. The text is reproduced on this page.

  Published by Invention Incarnate.

Records-access correspondence

The written request for the search-warrant files. The sender’s name and email address, a residential address, a license plate, and the names of a trooper and a judge are redacted.

• October 8, 2026

  Request to the Clerk of Courts for the returned search-warrant files (PDF)

  Two pages. From Invention Incarnate to the Clerk of Courts, Essex County Superior Court.

Not yet in the record here

• The three search warrants and their affidavits, granted December 22, 2025. Requested from the Clerk of Courts on October 8, 2026. On October 9, 2026 the clerk’s office replied by email that the materials had been located and are impounded by order of the Superior Court until December 22, 2026. They are not available to the public before that date unless the court orders otherwise.
• The indictment, ESCR2026-83, filed March 30, 2026. A copy will be posted when obtained.

Pages that use these documents: What happened, The charges, INV-83, Timeline.