Cops: Murder-for-Hire Suspect Tried to Have Witnesses Killed

A man charged with trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife is being held without bail on new charges that he tried to hire a gang member to kill two prosecution witnesses, including a state trooper.

Fifty-two-year-old Andrew S. Gordon of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, appeared Friday in federal court in Boston.

Ortiz says Gordon has been in custody since his arrest on state charges in a murder-for-hire plot whose target was his estranged wife. She says Gordon tried to hire a hit man, who turned out to be an undercover state trooper.

Ortiz says that while incarcerated, Gordon tried to hire a gang member living in New Hampshire to kill a state trooper and another witness against him. She says he actually was talking to an undercover officer.