Finally, some answers in Bourne. Details emerge on allegations against Lt. Kelli Weeks.

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Cape Cod Times reporter Matthew Burke has had a busy few months keeping tabs of the various scandals involving the Bourne Fire Department. At the center of this ongoing drama is a name that has surfaced often, Kelli Weeks. She is a 33-year-old lieutenant who is also married to Deputy Chief Paul Weeks. Weeks, who once posed for a female firefighter charity calendar, has been under investigation since the spring.

It took a while, but Burke was able to determine weeks ago that the probe centered around Kelli Weeks showing up in the middle of a drug investigation by the Bourne Police Department. But it wasn’t until  this past week that reporter Burke has been able to tell us the details. They come from a memo addressed to Weeks informing here of a disciplinary hearing that was scheduled for this past Wednesday and has now been rescheduled for December 29.

Burke reports that Town Administrator Thomas Guerino, who along with the fire chief, threatened to fire anyone who provided information to the press, gave the memo to the reporter.  Here are excerpts from the latest article:

In his memo, which provides the most information to date regarding allegations against Weeks, Guerino states that Weeks faces discipline or termination stemming from an incident “on or about” May 7 at approximately 4:35 p.m. It is alleged that Weeks was seen at the rear parking lot of a Sandwich Road location in uniform, meeting and having a conversation with someone who was later accused of selling drugs from that location.

Weeks was driving a fire department vehicle at the time, according to the memo.

“It is further alleged that you were not assigned to be at that location by the Bourne Fire Department and that you were not acting at that time in accordance with your responsibilities as a Bourne Firefighter,” the memo reads.

The memo states the meeting was “reported” to the police, who were “conducting an undercover drug surveillance operation at the same time and location.”

At the selectmen’s Nov. 10 meeting, acting Fire Chief Daniel Doucette said Weeks’ actions “were appropriate,” according to meeting minutes. Doucette did not return messages left for him at the station this week.

Guerino’s memo lists nine rules allegedly broken by Weeks, including “no employee shall be absent from duty without authorized leave” and “any type of conduct which reflects discredit upon an employee as a department member, or upon his fellow employees, or upon the fire department is prohibited.”

Weeks did not return messages left for her at the fire station this week and was unable to be reached at her parents’ Attleboro home. Her attorney, Richard Sullivan of Milford, declined to comment through a spokeswoman.

Last month, Police Chief Earl Baldwin admitted at a selectmen’s meeting that Weeks had appeared at a police drug operation earlier this year.

Fire union officials then released logs that documented years of odd behavior exhibited by Weeks while on duty. The logs also detailed instances when town and fire department officials were notified of problems concerning Weeks but did nothing, as well as examples of town police officers contradicting public statements made by town officials.

Union officials alleged a cover-up and said public safety was at risk.

Weeks has been back at work for two months after being out for four months on medical leave, union officials previously told the Times.

When she returned to work, her assignment within the fire department had changed, and fresh complaints regarding her work habits were reported to town officials.