Forget Facebook.  Forget Twitter.  Forget Instagram.

The best social media website by far is LEO Affairs.

This site is a veritable wealth of information about almost every law enforcement agency in the country.

The best thing about LEO Affairs is that police officers are free to discuss anything they want without fear of recrimination from their supervisors since they can post their comments anonymously.

Popular LEO Affairs topics include local politicians, police administration, promotions, demotions, firings and, best of all, cops behaving badly.

For example, we learned from a 2009 post on LEO Affairs that a sexual harassment complaint had been made against former North Miami Police Chief Leonard “Lenny” Burgess, and we mentioned it in a March 2, 2015 blog.  Two days later, Chief Lenny sent an email to the City Manager, Mayor and Council denying everything, and emphatically stated, “I was not involved in this SH [sexual harassment] incident.”

Unfortunately for Chief Lenny, we made a public records request from the Miami-Dade Police Department, his previous employer, which supplied us with its Preliminary Case Report for Internal Affairs Case #2009-0006 against Police Division Chief Leonard Burgess, as well as the FDLE’s Investigative Summary, regarding allegations of sexual harassment.  Of course, we posted our findings.

Fast forward to 2016.

A month after the unjustified shooting of an unarmed black man by North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda, and the framing of Commander Emile Hollant by assistant chief Larry Juriga, City Manager Larry Spring hired former Miami Assistant Police Chief (and former husband of NMPD’s newly appointed assistant chief, Franzia Brea) Adam L. Burden as the city’s “Police Consultant” in the City Manager’s Office (CMO).

Curiously, he was assigned to “oversee” the Internal Affairs investigation of Commander Hollant.

Per the Personnel Record Update dated August 29, 2016, and the attached Temporary Employment Agreement, Adam Burden was hired as “police consultant” at the hourly rate of $75.00, or $113,100.00 per year.

For his part time gig, Adam Burden is earning more than a full time assistant chief’s base pay.

Sweet gig, huh?

But, wait!  There’s more!

At the time Burden was hired by North Miami, he had not been certified as a law enforcement officer since June 30, 2012, at which time his certification became inactive.  Sergeant Diana Roman, who was running (and rigged) the Internal Affairs investigation of Commander Hollant, was uncomfortable with a civilian being present during her investigation of witnesses.  When she voiced her concerns to the State Attorney’s Office, Adam Burden quickly attended mandatory retraining on December 9, 2016, and then was sworn in as a North Miami Police reserve officer.

Not surprisingly, the newest member of Team Juriga came to the NMPD with plenty of his own baggage.

Adam Lucious Burden was hired by the City of Miami on April 13, 1987 and retired on January 15, 2010, but not before he was sued for sexual harassment in 2002 by Major Felicia Brown.  The case was transferred to federal court and eventually settled for an undisclosed amount.

In 2003, Burden and four other police officers, along with the City of Miami, were sued for being “heavy-handed with crowd-control tactics” during the Free Trade Area of the Americas protests, in which “hundreds of demonstrators outside were injured, and about 230 were arrested,” according to the Miami New Times.  The City of Miami and Miami-Dade County eventually settled with the protesters for $160,000.00 and $300,000.00, respectively.

On February 22, 2010, a month after he retired from Miami PD, Burden was hired by the Opa-locka Police Department as a deputy chief.  On March 22, 2011, he was fired for what he alleged was retaliation for “blowing the whistle” on then-Chief of Police Cheryl Cason and then-City Manager Clarence Patterson, according to a lawsuit filed by Burden and four other Opa-locka employees on June 3, 2011.

While he was still working for Opa-locka, Burden applied for the position of chief of the Seattle Police Department.  According to the Seattle Weekly News, he was one of 11 applicants, but then withdrew his application “due to a recent surgical procedure.”

That was the “official” excuse.

The Seattle newspaper article, which published Burden’s dubious adventures in law enforcement, was most likely the real reason he backed out.

After getting fired by Opa-locka (of all places), Burden then tried to get rehired by the Miami Police Department in December of 2011, this time as a chief.  He was rejected.

Adam Lucious Burden has also had his share of financial woes as well.

He was sued three times by Washington Mutual Bank for failure to pay his mortgage, as well as his homeowners’ association for non-payment of maintenance.  He managed to settle all four of those foreclosure actions before finally losing his home.

Burden and his most recent (third) ex-wife, Franzia Brea (a/k/a Franzia Lefleur, a/k/a Franzia Cherelus, a/k/a Franzia Burden, a/k/a Franzia Paniague) were also sued in a foreclosure action by their homeowners’ association for non-payment of maintenance, which lawsuit also was eventually settled.

As one of the few token Haitian members of “Illuminati,” Franzia Brea, began furiously conspiring with Team Juriga to get rid of Police Chief Gary Eugene from the minute he was sworn in last July.

Despite their divorce, Franzia Brea and her third ex-husband, Adam Lucious Burden, remain close friends.

Make no mistake, the hiring of Burden was by design.

During his 23 year stint at the Miami Police Department, Adam Lucious Burden earned quite the reputation as a “ladies man.”

And we’re being kind.

The truth is, while at Miami PD, Burden earned the nickname “Adam 33,” the number 33 being the police code for Sex Offense.

Just saying.

Adam met Franzia some time after December 11, 1989, when she first started working at the Miami Police Department.  They married ten years later on July 25, 1999, two years after her second divorce.

Sources employed by the Miami Police Department during her tenure have confirmed that Franzia was reprimanded for double dipping – collecting off duty pay while officially earning her on-the-clock salary.  The rumor was that she was given a choice to either retire or be fired.  She chose retirement.

Franzia Brea-Burden left the Miami PD eight months after her husband retired and became a deputy chief at Opa-locka.   One month later on October 31, 2010, she landed her current job at the North Miami Police Department.

Sources formerly with the Opa-locka Police Department revealed that during Burden’s nine month gig as deputy chief, he was constantly being stalked by his wife, while she was in uniform and on duty in North Miami, who suspected he was cheating on her yet again.*

We’re told that Franzia publicly confronted a female Opa-locka police employee and accused her of f*cking her husband.

Nice!

(UPDATE: *New information just obtained:  While she was on duty in uniform, Brea-Burden left her jurisdiction in North Miami to not only harass an Opa-locka employee at her workplace, but also at her home.  The female employee, who was understandably upset that Brea-Burden obtained her home address, notified then-Opa-locka Police Chief Cheryl Cason, who immediately called North Miami city officials and told them, “Get control of your officers.”

Adam and Franzia eventually divorced on August 8, 2014, after what appears by all accounts to have been a stormy marriage.

And, again, we’re being kind.

But, don’t take our word for it.  Let’s take a look at what their own former colleagues at the Miami Police Department have to say, courtesy of LEO Affairs.  For once, we’ll reserve our commentary since all of this is self-explanatory.

Get out the popcorn, folks.  This is really entertaining!

(Click each screenshot to enlarge.)

Is this a freaking soap opera, or what?

Welcome to your new “Power Couple” of the NMPD!

Seriously, folks.  We could not make this stuff up.

We also can’t make up the fact that your newest assistant chief, Franzia Brea Lefleur Cherelus Burden Paniague, has earned the reputation of being an “Idiot.”

Nor can we invent the sexual escapades of Adam “33” Lucious Burden, whose reputation apparently preceded his employment as “police consultant” in the North Miami Police Department.

The bigger mystery is why North Miami City Manager Larry Spring, who also hails from the City of Miami, insists on keeping a “police consultant” on the payroll.

Remember, Spring brought Adam Lucious Burden to North Miami because he claimed that former Chief Gary Eugene needed help running his police department.  Thanks to the dirty machinations of the good ol’ boy “Illuminati” members, which now included Burden, the City Manager fired Gary Eugene on July 7, 2017.  Spring recently appointed Larry “Redneck” Juriga to take his place.

The big question is this:  If Larry Spring is so confident that he made the right decision, why in the hell does his new chief need a “police consultant” to tell him how to run the sixth largest police department in Miami-Dade County?

Just asking.

The bigger question is this:  What does Adam Lucious Burden have on Larry Spring?

After all, they both were employed at the City of Miami during the SEC securities fraud investigation.

Just saying.

Stay tuned.

Stephanie