This is the second of two parts.
Ex-trooper Matthew Kelley, who quit after being accused of “improper storage of contraband” shortly after he was hospitalized for a “medical emergency,” was the focus of three previous investigations, records show.
State Police say the Internal Affairs case on the medical emergency in May remains open. Kelley quit June 28. The “contraband was narcotics,” a state police spokesman told the Herald last month.
New investigative documents show Kelley was the subject of complaints about his policing — from allowing a frisk of a woman in Brockton who had no “bra or underwear” on to filing paperwork so late a drunken driving case was dismissed.
A Norfolk Superior Court judge dismissed an OUI case for “untoward and unnecessary delay” in 2018, records obtained by the Herald via a public records request state.
That delay was due to Kelley hand-delivering a citation to a suspect in a “serious” three-car crash on Route 24 more than two months after being told to do so, records show. Kelley, the reports state, showed quick-thinking at the crash scene — but was slow with the paperwork and was cited for that tardiness.
That was also the case, records state, in Brockton later that same year after a woman said Kelley and a trooper he was training pulled her over.
“The way they searched me was inappropriate,” the woman told an investigator. “I had no under clothes on and he was moving his hand on my private parts.”
Kelley and the trooper he was training, who did the pat down, were exonerated for the stop and frisk. But Kelley was called out for not filing a timely report and for letting the woman drive off with an unregistered car.
Kelley was in the gang unit, which is one of the more “elite” units, like K-9 or truck team.
Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has told the Herald it has notified “defense counsel and the court” in a gun-trafficking case Kelley was involved in that he has been dishonorably discharged.
State Police also confirmed the defense attorneys and every district attorney’s office in Massachusetts have been told of Kelley’s status. Efforts to reach the former trooper have failed.
The Herald also reported Monday ex-Trooper Nidu Andrade was dumped from the force after a woman complained he sent her a photo of a penis along with sexually charged messages about her “cleavage” and “D cup” breast size, documents reveal.
