Don't have an account yet? Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Jason Maldonado was a widely respected Fort Lauderdale detective, one who might have felt an extra layer of job security based on the fact that two years ago his former supervisor, Capt. Frank Adderley, became Chief Frank Adderley. But the Internal Affairs investigation of Maldonado, which was recently made public, reveals that Maldonado had no faith that his superiors would protect him if he was discovered to be having a sexual relationship with a woman working with the department as a confidential informant.
In short, the Maldonado case was a test of the department's leadership culture, and based on a review of the case, Adderley's administration passed the test. The file shows that Maldonado feared the consequences of his affair as early as March , when Bruce Roberts was chief.
A team that included Maldonado arrested Georges after the buy. Police recovered 27 grams of cocaine through that transaction, then found 60 grams from a search of Georges' apartment. The day after she was busted, Georges agreed to act as a confidential informant in exchange for a reduction in her charges for dealing drugs. That night, March 24, , Maldonado called Georges several times, according to the investigation.
Several days later they began having sex, according to Georges' statement to police. Georges describes how Maldonado had her purchase two cell phones, with the intention of concealing the couple's communication from Maldonado's superiors. From Georges' statement:. That's why he was coming into the apartment complex giving a false name and hiding his car around back, because he knew it was taboo.
He told me But at the same time, it seems the forbidden nature of the affair appealed to Maldonado. Not only was he married, but Georges had pending drug charges and was even wearing an electronic ankle bracelet so police could monitor her whereabouts. He had even made a comment to me that he had stopped a girl walking by the courthouse in a mini-skirt Georges' daughter gave a sworn statement to investigators in which she claimed that Maldonado visited her mother about three times a week, including times when he was on duty and wearing his police uniform.
