Dover Man Charged For Theft of Antique Pistol

A Dover home security guard is facing a theft charge for allegedly thieving an age-old gun, valued at roughly $10,000, from a Portsmouth mansion he was working at in May.

Scott Gagnon, 25, of 31 Mill St. in Dover surrendered himself to the Portsmouth Police Department on Monday as a consequence of an bench warrant that accused him with a Class A felony count of theft from a building.

Police say a probe by Detective John Peracchi keyed out Gagnon as the person who stole an antique pistol that has been found by police. The said theft took place in May of this year.

Portsmouth Police Capt. Janet Champlin said the weapon in question is an antique Flintlock pistol made by England's Ketland and Co., and it considered to date back to the 19th century.

Champlin said the gun was retrieved in good condition and can be most easily equated to the type of pistols people might come across in pirate films. She said it is a metal gun with a brown coloring on the side.