Wayne Jenkins, who led . He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life". Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. Inside the police department, the Gun Trace Task Force was known for its success in capturing suspected drug dealers, their stashes and their illegal firearms. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". One former supervisor never responded. I also point out to him that it's a fairly common practice for prosecutors to level charges that are so serious that the defendant feels they have no choice but to plead guilty. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. Although the indicted officers committed many robberies individually before joining the Gun Trace Task Force, prosecutors charge that they grew bolder and more prolific after Jenkins took over the unit in June 2016. "He's a pathological liar," Stepp says. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. Jenkins, indignant, aggressively shot back at questions from OConnors attorney. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . Wayne Jenkins who was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for years of robberies, drug dealing and other crimes has asked a judge to release him just four . Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. He's due to be released in 2038. He couldn't get anyone to believe him at the time, and to this day, he fears law enforcement. 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. From 2006 to 2009, Jenkins was the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging misconduct. In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? Theres been plenty of times where the suspect has said, The drugs are in the car, and I go and I cant find them. 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. A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. 2023 BBC. After the indictments, one of Jenkins supervisors told Internal Affairs investigators she had believed he was the best gun cop this department has ever seen.. Jenkins rushed off to join them. He suggested another option. I ask, slightly confused. In Justin Fenton's book We Own This City, on which the HBO series is based, the Baltimore Sun journalist explained that Jenkins would often be "caught in a lie" while giving evidence to a jury, but no complaints were put on his record. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. I hoped it could spur a more honest discussion about what it's going to take to reform or even redefine what it means to be a cop in the US. In our conversation, Jenkins says that that's not true - members of the squad did steal money that day, but from somewhere else in the house. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I'm losing a lot of teeth, you know, they used to be nice and pretty.". The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore leaders agreed Wednesday to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who was killed during a 2010 police chase . Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. Or harm you or even kill you.". The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. The actions of former Baltimore police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers in the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) are explored in We Own This City. These units often operated with little supervision. He ran me over because I was getting away.. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. A lot of what he told me was much more systematic. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. And Jenkins says, Did you look in the console? And he pulls the rug back and boom. In my conversation with Jenkins, he spent a lot of time disputing Stepp's account of their partnership. All of the other officers would have to be inaccurate in their testimony if it is to be believed that Detective Jenkins was manufacturing information for the affidavit, she said. 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. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. I ask. He says Stepp pressured him into it. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? One officer recalled Jenkins taunting colleagues waiting in line to submit evidence at police headquarters, bragging about how many guns he was getting off the street. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. Prosecutors pointed to the fact that Jenkins fabricated evidence, like producing a bogus iPhone video of his officers cracking a drug dealer's safe, when they had in fact already broken into it and stolen $200,000 in cash. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. For example, I asked him about the robbery of a man who lived in a large mansion in the suburbs of Baltimore - a robbery he pled guilty to in his plea agreement. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. Jenkins was given a 25-year prison sentence on June 7, 2018, which he is currently in the midst of serving at a federal prison in Kentucky. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. These misconduct allegations came as Jenkins was serving in various plainclothes units well before his appointment in 2016 to head the Gun Trace Task Force, one of the departments most celebrated plainclothes squads. One was that he felt he'd been railroaded into his plea agreement by the US prosecutors (the Maryland US Attorney's Office declined to comment). He and six members of that unit now sit in federal prison for crimes including conspiracy, racketeering and robbery, all committed under the guise of legitimate police work. But that day, Jenkins drove toward the edge of town, bobbing in and out of traffic and running red lights, until he pulled over near a wooded area off Liberty Heights Avenue. "Now we're going to burn it down. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. 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). We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. Seething frustration was spilling into the streets that afternoon in 2015. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. I asked him if he thinks that another scandal is inevitable. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. 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. But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist Jessica Lussenhop from behind bars, and he claimed he never took money from Baltimore citizens. 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 . "I ain't have a trial because the simple fact is I knew [the court] would believe them over top of me," he told the jury. Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. "I could have spoken up.". Plainclothes officers must constantly be checked by leadership, Barksdale said, with commanders inquiring about irregularities in their work and excessive overtime pay. The tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. He resigned and the top spot at the Baltimore Police Department remains vacant. Jenkins pleaded guilty in January and admitted taking part in at least 10 robberies of Baltimore citizens, planting drugs on innocent people and re-selling drugs he stole from suspects on an almost daily basis, including heroin, cocaine and prescription painkillers. Wayne Jenkins is the leader of the rogue police unit in Baltimore who was sentenced to 25 years of prison in a corruption scandal prosecutors called "breathtaking". But, he added, I think that if I am held responsible for my actions, then the same should be with the officers for their wrongdoing.. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. They might not have been believed anyhow. Wayne Jenkins, ex-police sergeant, leading the Gun Trace Task Force Sergeant Wayne Jenkins was a decorated leader of the corrupt plain-clothes police unit in Baltimore whose detectives robbed . "I'm grateful, very grateful.". The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. 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. These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. In Baltimore, theyre often referred to as knockers, a reference to their historically aggressive tactics. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. He tells me that the first time he ever stole money, he was just a rookie. I never heard back from the Baltimore Police Department. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. Your digital subscription helps pay for The Baltimore Sun's investigative reporting. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. 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. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. The drop-offs included marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, all of which Stepp did his best to sell. 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. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. But they needed more information. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? Weeks later, I search these locations myself to see if I can find anything. "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. Yes. It was nicknamed The Barn an apparent homage to the offices of a corrupt police unit on the television series The Shield. The show, modeled after a 1990s Los Angeles Police Department scandal, featured a strike team that roughed up suspects, lied about their investigations and took a cut of their drug busts. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. 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. Others were raised by defense attorneys and their clients, who said an overzealous Jenkins skirted legal standards in making arrests. He counters that the units helped bring down crime, and says he made it a point to scrutinize their conduct. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. Jenkins names two specific locations where he says the drugs get tossed: a train bridge near the Eastern District police station, and a wooded highway off-ramp on the way to the Northern District police station. To learn more about their behavior, The Sun obtained several thousand pages of court records, dozens of body camera videos and hundreds of police department emails and restricted internal files. Sneed's attorney Michael Pulver concluded, per Fenton, that the officers had "fabricated this story to hide the fact that they intentionally assaulted and falsely arrested and imprisoned Mr. Jenkins earned praise outside the department, too. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. The bottles were winged at us. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton spent a year delving into the operations of Wayne Jenkins and his officers, both as members of the Gun Trace Task Force and before. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. 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. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" On "Salon Talks" Bernthal reveals he spoke to the real Sgt. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. "So you did take money, ultimately?" Police who went rogue - Wayne Jenkins and Momodu Gondo, Jenkins, centre, before he took command of the Gun Trace Task Force, Clockwise from top left: Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, Maurice Ward, Marcus Taylor, Momodu Gondo, Equipment that two of the GTTF officers testified was going to be used for home invasions, Donald Stepp inside Baltimore Police headquarters, in a photo taken by Wayne Jenkins, Shawn Whiting, centre, at a press conference held by victims of the GTTF. 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. "I'm here because of greed," he said. "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. I mean, it had velocity, Jenkins said. The second declined to comment. Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. 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 started to worry. ", Despite this happening more than once, Jenkins remained in his superiors' good books and when Fries was promoted in 2007 he decided to also give Jenkins a boost because he was "the best officer [he] had working under [his] command.". Baltimore detectives convicted in shocking corruption trial Stepp grew up in Middle River, where he was friends with Jenkins's older brother. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, L-R: Former Baltimore police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and Jon Bernthal as Jenkins in HBO true-crime drama "We Own This City. It was surreal hearing his voice, talking to me. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. . Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. Read about our approach to external linking. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. Prior to this, they'd been lauded as some of the best gun cops in the city - seizing dozens of illegal firearms every month, and demonstrating a "a work ethic that is beyond reproach", in the words of one supervisor. At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. "I have no respect for him.". However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. 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. 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. A surveillance video suggesting Jenkins may have planted drugs in a suspects car did make its way to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore States Attorneys Office in 2014. "I swear, I wish I would have known before I ever put anyone in here I wish I would have known the other side," he says at one point. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. 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 said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. It was billed at the time as the largest cocaine seizure in department history, one of Jenkins many large-scale seizures. Even though we've known for weeks that Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal), Daniel Hersl (Josh Charles), Jemell Rayam (Darrell Britt-Gibson) and the rest of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force were . "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. Within days, prosecutors issued a letter to police saying they were declining to charge Jenkins with a crime. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. Plenty of times he's gone behind me and found them.. The message read: "Greetings. For the past four years, Jessica Lussenhop has been reporting on the rise and fall of a corrupt squad of Baltimore police officers. De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. FOX45 looks at the 8 former officers of the Gun Trace Task ForceThe ring leader of the squad Wayne Jenkins is currently serving the longest sentence out of the members federally indicted on . Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. An officer who sometimes worked with Jenkins, Keith Gladstone, pleaded guilty last month to going to the scene of Simons arrest to plant the BB gun a response, Gladstone admitted, to a phone call from a frantic Jenkins asking for the help. 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. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. Burley's vehicle struck another, killing Mr Davis. "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. Here is everything you need to know about the real Jenkins and where he is now. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". Updated: Mar 1, 2023 / 02:16 PM EST. You will not be charged for this call. 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