I continued working on this story for as long as I did out of some hope that the more the public learned about the corruption in the police department, the better chance there might be of some kind of true, systemic reform. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. Of all seven men, the last person I thought would ever agree to an interview was Jenkins, the fallen "golden boy" of the Baltimore Police Department. Jenkins would stop bringing those big drug seizures to the evidence room, and instead give them to Stepp to sell. "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. We Own This City, an HBO Max miniseries out April 25, about a Baltimore Police Department (BPD) task force unit that went rogue, highlights some of the . When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. In 2018, Jessica wrote a piece which detailed the explosive trial at a Baltimore federal courthouse that revealed the unit's crimes, She then turned that story into a new seven-part podcast series called Bad Cops which you can listen to in its entirety below. He couldn't get anyone to believe him at the time, and to this day, he fears law enforcement. But the scope and breadth of these allegations were staggering. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. Any attempts to make the force become less of a warrior and more of a guardian was looked at terribly, he said. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. He ordered a detective to drive them to the hospital and joined the front lines. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. He's due to be released in 2038. Jenkins was a member of the Baltimore police department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a plain-clothed unit tasked with finding guns and drugs in bulk in a bid to tackle the city's high murder. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. HBO's new true-crime drama stars Jon Bernthal as Jenkins, with the show examining Jenkins' rise in the city's police department and eventual arrest after a two-year federal investigation into the GTTF. When his case went to trial on January 5, 2018 Jenkins pled guilty to one count of racketeering, two counts of robbery, one count of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation, and four counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. As adults, they ran into each other again at an underground card game frequented by Baltimore Police officers. The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. "And I remember taking the $10,000.". Wayne Jenkins is a former BPD Sergeant who served as the leader of the Gun Trace Task Force. I wasnt privy. They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries. Oh, yeah. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. 49 . Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. Jenkins earned praise outside the department, too. Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . He. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. Read about our approach to external linking. Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. That made it very tempting when, sometime around 2011, Jenkins approached Stepp and suggested they go into business together. A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. No one believed Oakley. Near Druid Hill Park, amid the shouting, sirens and buzzing choppers overhead, he commandeered a state prison department van and helped pull injured officers inside. They drive unmarked vehicles. The prosecutors characterised both men as having less culpability in the GTTF's schemes and that Ward in particular had provided valuable information that lead to additional charges against other officers. Wayne Jenkins, who led the Gun Trace Task Force, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges including racketeering, robbery and falsifying records. In Baltimores recent history, the police department has consistently relied on such units, even though the conduct of many of their officers would draw criticism from city residents. "Now we're going to burn it down. The bottles were winged at us. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. But they needed more information. Shawn Whiting, a man whose house was robbed of $16,000 and a kilo-and-a-half of heroin, testified that he knew that as a drug dealer, his word counted for much less than the officers'. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. The idea that the Gun Trace Task Force went rogue simply because their sergeant was uniquely evil ignores all the systemic ways in which he was encouraged to operate the way he did, and the larger policing culture that supported him (it should also be noted that several of the squad's members started stealing money long before they joined the GTTF). "I thought it was a winner.". After he was sent to federal lock-up, I wrote Jenkins a letter once a year - along with many other journalists, book authors, producers and documentary filmmakers - requesting an interview. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. Baltimore can be a complicated and dangerous place, and the men and women the officers targeted and abused may have caused harm and abuse themselves. The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. During the altercation, a passerby named George Sneed was assaulted by officer Robert Cirello who broke his jaw, leading Sneed to sue. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. "You have nightmares about police officers harassing you, beating you up, just locking you up, it's just a nightmare that I have and it basically hasn't gone away yet," he said. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. During his trial, on January 5, 2018, Jenkins pled guilty to one count of racketeering, two counts of robbery, one count of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation, and four counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. At that time, I didnt think they were officers, Simon said. Why cant I be like this guy?. Then, in November 2017, he was given further charges of destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations, and deprivation of rights under color of law. He ran me over because I was getting away.. Wayne Jenkins, who led . "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. Over the course of four phone calls (courtesy of some traded bags of crisps), Jenkins paints a picture of the Baltimore Police Department as a place where indoctrination into corruption starts almost immediately. Jenkins also tells me that any time an officer's misconduct gets picked up by Internal Affairs or by an outside law enforcement agency, it was routine for the involved officers to meet up, to tailor their stories to avoid punishment. These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. But in less than a year, Sergeant Jenkins was put in charge of the new plainclothes squad in West Baltimore. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. I'm losing a lot of teeth, you know, they used to be nice and pretty.". He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. "It ain't over. This is his senior portrait from 1998. Jenkins lied to them, saying he was a federal agent. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. Then they could enter the house and take the money, only later calling county officers to say they were executing the warrant. Wayne Jenkins, who led . He was also the ringleader of a criminal enterprise of police officers who were robbing people and dealing drugs. OConnor had spent much of the day tossing back beers at the Brewers Hill Pub & Grill in Southeast Baltimore when the manager asked him to leave. Jenkins explained that hed already tracked the man to Essex, so he thought they could stake out the home, go through the mans trash and find something to parlay into a search warrant. Read about our approach to external linking. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life". 3.4M views, 20K likes, 1.4K loves, 6.8K comments, 52K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Baltimore Sun: A criminal with a badge: A Baltimore Sun investigation into the story of Baltimore Police. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. Here's what the public was led to believe about the Gun Trace Task Force, before the FBI arrested almost every member of the squad: That in a city still reeling from the civil unrest that followed the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the GTTF was a bright spot in a department under a dark cloud. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. He admitted to knowing . What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. We knew he wasn't the straight-and-narrow cop that all cops are supposed to be," he said. Jenkins, who later led the GTTF, pleaded guilty to civil rights violations for participating in the coverup and is serving 25 years in prison for crimes including robberies and selling drugs. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. On an oddly balmy January night, Jenkins and Fries were working the McElderry Park neighborhood in East Baltimore when they noticed two brothers drinking Steel Reserve beers on the sidewalk outside their rowhouse. Two officers said he spoke openly about doing home invasions on high-level drug dealers that he called "monsters", because of the amount of drugs and cash he hoped they'd have stashed in their houses. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. Despite Jenkins bravado, the jury found in favor of OConnor and awarded $75,000. Wayne Jenkins fist felt like a hammer to Tim OConnors face. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. Maurice Ward, the former detective now in prison, also remembers De Sousa coming to the rescue and reducing the punishment, though he believes Jenkins was still suspended. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. Attorneys in the integrity unit had approached another officer involved in the arrest, asking him pointed questions about whether Jenkins had lied about the drugs. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. On 1 March, 2017, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and six of his subordinate officers from the Gun Trace Task Force walked into the Baltimore Police Department's Internal Affairs building, believing they were there to clear up a minor complaint about a damaged vehicle. It was during these games that Stepp heard Jenkins boasting about the large drug stashes he often came across during his work as a plainclothes police officer. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". While it may seem incongruous that an officer would be hailed as a hero while racking up complaints, in the Baltimore Police Department it was not. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. He started to worry. But I think he also spoke to me because he doesn't like the image of himself that's been in the media - as a sociopath, as someone almost inhumanly evil. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. Current and former officers said he was generally regarded favorably as a cowboy type who found big cases through a frenetic pace of citizen stops, which sometimes yielded information leading the way up a chain of drug dealers. They claimed they didnt see who did it. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. In federal court, Mickey Oakley argued that the officers who arrested him including Jenkins and future Gun Trace Task Force member Daniel Hersl had lied about the circumstances leading up to the arrest and had illegally searched his home. In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. Yes, I did," he says. In the years since his arrest, he'd never given a public interview. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. Washington (AFP) - A police officer described as perhaps the most corrupt in the history of the Baltimore police department was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday. The plaintiffs prevailed in three of them, either through a jury verdict or the citys decision to settle the case. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. But most people who worked with him police and prosecutors asserted to The Sun they had no idea he and his officers were involved in criminal behavior. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. But when the sun came up on 1 March 2017, the city awoke to a vastly different reality. The indictment of Jenkins and six of his gun task force officers on federal racketeering charges rocked Baltimore when the announcement came in March 2017. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. Credit: Baltimore Police. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. Arrest him, too, Jenkins yelled at the responding officers. Many plainclothes units would work out of a satellite office inside a trailer in Northwest Baltimore. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. Ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins apologised in court for the crimes he committed while heading an elite squad called the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF). It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. They also didnt give chase. He suggested another option. "I got 25 years. Wayne Jenkins, Baltimore's dirtiest cop, is sentenced: It still doesn't feel like justice Jenkins was supposed to get guns off the street in Baltimore but wound up running a vicious. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?". And yet, here we are, me in my closet "studio" and him at the front of a line of 20 to 30 other inmates, all waiting for their turn on the prison phone. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. But the suits triggered no internal punishment by the police department. The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest. Their work is not to be confused with undercover operations, in which police officers assume a different identity and worm their way into a criminal organization. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. One former supervisor never responded. "I never took a thing. It's propped up on top of a suitcase sitting on top of a plastic tub, and I'm holding my recorder and microphone at the ready. Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. In an interview from prison, he said it wasnt uncommon for the officers to take contraband and submit it to evidence control without arresting someone. As the leader of the unit, he received the longest prison sentence and the federal authorities who prosecuted the squad viewed him as its most culpable member. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. On June 13, 2016, Jenkins became the Officer in Charge of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF,) a specialized unit within the Operational Investigation Division of the BPD. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. In an incident to which Jenkins would later plead guilty, the officers handcuffed two men. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. But thats likely not what triggered the unprovoked beating of OConnor. On Friday, both detectives Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward were sentenced to seven years in prison. Sneed. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. But Whiting is not so optimistic. Donald Stepp was released from federal prison back in January of this year. What if a complaint was made? "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. I did give drugs to Donny for the last couple of years I was police, but I didn't take people's money because then they would know you were dirty. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. Jenkins had told his squad hed heard over wiretaps that Belvedere Towers, a high-rise apartment complex in North Roland Park, was the scene of large drug deals. One afternoon, he took two officers there and they wound up stopping a drug deal in progress. ", Explaining the tactics of the GTTF, he also told the publication: "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest. Then 34, he was already an admired leader of aggressive street squads and would go on to head the elite Gun Trace Task Force, one of the Baltimore Police Departments go-to assets in the fight against violent crime. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. At that time, it was within De Sousas purview as the deputy commissioner in charge of administrative matters to intervene to resolve a discipline case, according to another former deputy commissioner, Jason Johnson. He kept $10,000 for himself, saying he planned to install a front-end crash bar so his department-issued vehicle wouldnt get damaged in his frequent collisions. Baltimore leaders have agreed to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who was killed during a 2010 police chase involving Gun Trace Task Force officers. They walked far enough so they couldnt be seen from the street. That creates a culture its not unique to Baltimore, but its pronounced here that those guys should be given a pass, Davis said. And Jenkins says, Did you look in the console? And he pulls the rug back and boom. The daughters of 86-year-old Elbert Davis also told the court about the 2010 car crash Jenkins caused while he was pursuing a man named Umar Burley. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. Both men have requested new trials. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. Then 34, he was already an admired leader of aggressive street squads and would go on to head the elite Gun Trace Task Force, one of the Baltimore. Some of his men also have acknowledged stealing well before they came together on the Gun Trace Task Force in 2016. In January, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired her police commissioner and replaced him with former Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, who promised sweeping reforms to the department. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. In January 2018, a long list of victims took the stand - many of whom had ties to the drug trade - and told harrowing stories of how they were robbed by the officers during car stops and searches of their homes. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. Or harm you or even kill you.". When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. His eye socket was fractured. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. To single him out as a flawed individual in an otherwise perfectly functioning system is a way to avoid change in the police department, to shirk the responsibility of actually preventing this from happening again. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. He reviewed hours of body camera footage from their arrests, watched tapes of their courtroom appearances, reviewed several thousand pages of documents, including internal police department files, and interviewed dozens of people including two of the convicted officers, some of the gun unit's victims, other current and former Baltimore police officers and commanders, defense attorneys and prosecutors. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. It was in 2007 that Jenkins became a part of the GTTF, a new unit of plain-clothed officers focused on targeting suspected criminals believed to have big supplies of guns and drugs, in a bid to reduce the city's high murder rate. The same video led to a rare police department disciplinary case against Jenkins, who was internally charged with misconduct in 2015, according to a copy of the case file reviewed by The Sun. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. He was scared. In February 2017, Jenkins was charged with two counts of racketeering conspiracy; racketeering, aiding and abetting; racketeering; two counts of robbery and aiding and abetting; and two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. I was a hero," Jenkins says of his activity during the unrest. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? Then-Police Commissioner Anthony Batts had created a Force Investigation Team to inspire public trust that police leaders were keeping an eye on officers use of force. A two-year federal investigation into the GTTF resulted in all eight officers, and one Philadelphia officer, getting charged with several offenses, including racketeering, in 2017. It feels a little bit like splitting hairs. 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