A disgraced trooper was kicked off the force after a “medical event” sent investigators rushing to his Middleboro home, where drugs seized while he was on the job were found in his government-issued car, records show.

“Coke” and “8-ball size bags” taken in a drug bust were all part of the probe into what sent ex-Trooper Matthew Kelley to the hospital a year ago. He has since been dishonorably discharged.

A heavily redacted Massachusetts State Police internal affairs report obtained by the Herald after a year-long public records chase outlines how Kelley — newly assigned to the Milton gang unit — put a major interstate gun-running probe in jeopardy.

State Police wrote that the Crime Lab was tasked with reviewing “47 drug submissions” in which Kelley was “the case officer.” The lab also probed the contraband Kelley was credited with seizing on May 7, 2021, which was found in his vehicle.

“The substance discovered was … identified as (redacted),” the report states, adding that evidence was taken at the “crime scene” — his house in Middleboro. That “contraband was narcotics,” a State Police spokesman told the Herald.   https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/06/08/ex-mass-state-police-trooper-had-seized-drugs-at-his-home-was-kicked-off-force-after-medical-event/?g2i_eui=LlvAMyLAZmItAlKLX0rby12vwNY9aLeN&g2i_source=newsletter&lctg=E454C415948D740FF484A4358A&active=yesD