Concord Monitor Burglary Investigation Leads To Homeless Man With Child Sexual Abuse Images, Detective Says

CONCORD, NH — A burglary incident at the Concord Monitor building in June 2025 led to police finding child sexual abuse images on the homeless suspect’s cellphone, according to court documents.

An employee at the offices on Monitor Drive reported a burglary and the theft of items from the building. During the investigation, Jefferson Wayne Knott, 44, a homeless man now located in Concord, became a suspect. An officer, according to a report, “established probable cause that evidence of” burglary and receiving stolen property “would be located on Jefferson’s cellphone.”

On Sept. 2, 2025, the officer applied for and was granted a search warrant to examine data on Jefferson’s cellphone for the period from May 1 to Sept. 1, 2025. A few days later, the reporting officer and a second officer spoke to Jefferson on Storrs Street under the Loudon Road bridge and demanded his phone. Jefferson reportedly provided it to the police, with his password, and it was logged into evidence.

A detective analyzed the cellphone’s data on Oct. 27, 2025, and, while reviewing it, found Internet history in the Chrome browser from late August to a torrent search engine. The detective noted the cellphone had a peer-to-peer application, and they saw abbreviated terms “commonly used to reference child sexual abuse images,” the affidavit said.

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The detective went to one of the sites, searched the abbreviated term, and found .avi, .mpg, and other files, the report stated.

Another search warrant was requested to examine all the data on Knott’s cellphone, and it was granted on Dec. 1, 2025. The next day, the detective found 5,596 files matching a hash value known to be used for child sexual abuse image material on the phone. Another 5,085 files had a matching hash value associated with child exploitative-age difficult materials, the report said.

The detective viewed 10 .mpg, .mp4, and .avi files and confirmed them to be known child sexual abuse images files, the report stated.

“It should be noted that I viewed hundreds of other videos of child sexual abuse images on Jefferson’s device,” the detective wrote. “The majority of the videos I viewed depicted young girls, of nearly every age, from infants to young teenagers, being sexually assaulted by adult men.”

Knott was arrested on Jan. 30 and held without bail. At the time, he was also charged with possession of a controlled drug. He was arraigned on Feb. 2 but offered no pleas. A judge agreed there was probable cause to continue the case on Tuesday.

According to prior posts on Patch, Edgar W. Gordon, 59, of either Tremont Street in Boscawen or Concord, was arrested on Sept. 25, 2025, on a felony burglary charge after an incident or investigation at the former Concord Monitor building at 1 Monitor Drive. Gordon was later indicted on theft by deception-$1,500-plus, receiving stolen property, receiving stolen property-two prior convictions, forgery, theft by unauthorized taking-two prior convictions, duty to report with prior conviction, and two burglary charges, all felonies, connected to the incident. The burglary reportedly occured at the property on June 12, 2025, according to the indictments.

Gordon was also accused of burglarizing Lakes Region Tent and Events on Whitney Road in Penacook, cashing a stolen check for $2,275.50, on April 25, 2025. He was also accused of retaining construction materials owned by another person in Concord on May 9, 2025.

Gordon, according to the indictments, is a sex offender due to a sexual assault conviction in Aroostook County Superior Court in Caribou, Maine, in July 1994. He was accused of failing to register with the Boscawen police between April 4 and June 4, as required by law. He was also convicted of a duty-to-report charge in Hillsborough County Superior Court North in May 2016, according to the indictment.

Gordon has a status conference booked in the Monitor burglary case for March 9 in Merrimack County Superior Court.

According to a superior court filing, Knott is a felon due to a second-degree domestic violence conviction from August 2019, after an incident in Concord in January 2018. He received a 125-month sentence, suspended for five years, with three years of probation.

Knott was originally charged with first-degree assault-domestic violence, according to the court.

Knott was also known, at the time, as Jefferson Hodgdon.

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