Sergeant Wayne. But Internal Affairs was still working on the case that the States Attorneys Office had decided it could not pursue: the suspicion that Jenkins might have planted drugs in a car to justify an arrest. The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. ", 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.". On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. 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. When I tell this to Stepp, he's angry. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. You will not be charged for this call. "If you've got to lie about what you've seen or what you heard or what you witnessed, as long as he's dirty, he's got the drugs and he's got the guns and he did the crime - just get him.". 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. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. "It's that simple.". Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. They can let a suspect go, if they can lead to bigger fish. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. On June 7, 2018, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Some drug dealers told their lawyers that Jenkins made stuff up to arrest them and had kept a good chunk of their money and drugs before taking them in. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. A squad of veteran police officers stood accused of committing numerous robberies, as well as extortion and overtime fraud. No one believed Oakley. A plea agreement is a document that lists specific criminal acts that the defendant is agreeing to plead guilty to. "I did, yes. "I thought it was a winner.". Wayne Jenkins from Baltimore was sentenced to 25-years-in-prison. Turmoil has continued at the Baltimore Police Department, an agency that saw four commissioners in little more than a year among them De Sousa, now in prison for tax fraud. 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. 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. A lot of what he told me was much more systematic. Some tried to complain, but were ignored. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. Wayne Jenkins and his plainclothes colleagues operated in a world where success and misconduct were not mutually exclusive and sometimes seemed to go hand in hand. But nothing more. In November 2012, Wayne Jenkins was promoted to the rank of sergeant giving him new authority and freedom. Taxpayers footed the bill. Jenkins, who had been suspended during the investigation, went back to work, making no fewer than three dozen arrests over the rest of the year, most of them gun cases. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. 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. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. During the altercation, a passerby named George Sneed was assaulted by officer Robert Cirello who broke his jaw, leading Sneed to sue. Using wiretaps and hidden recording devices, they had accumulated a wealth of evidence showing the officers were robbing citizens, filing for hundreds of hours of overtime they never worked, stealing drugs and even selling illegal firearms back on the streets. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. 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.. "I deserve to be punished. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. Jenkins signed a plea agreement in 2017 that detailed seven robberies that he participated in along with other members of the unit, as well as his drug dealing partnership with Donald Stepp, the former bail bondsman and cocaine dealer who testified at trial. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. But when the sun came up on 1 March 2017, the city awoke to a vastly different reality. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. 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. It's going to take an almost unimaginable kind of effort to dig out the roots of corruption in the department, and it's much easier to just lock up the cops who get caught, and carry on with business as usual. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. It feels a little bit like splitting hairs. By Josiah Bates. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. They had the autonomy to catch and release suspects and develop informants. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. The dealers would be sitting in a jail cell. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved in several arrests that resulted in the injuries of the people he took into custody. The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. He suggested another option. Far from it. He's also at work on a memoir, which he says will reveal the contents of videos and photos he took of Jenkins that were never released publicly. 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. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". Read about our approach to external linking. 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. A loyal friend. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. 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. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. 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. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. 49 . Jerry Rodriguez, a career Los Angeles police officer who was a deputy commissioner in Baltimore from 2013 to 2015, said the department was resistant to change. He and other officers had raided a car wash, recovering more than a kilogram of drugs and $4,000 from a hidden desk compartment which could be opened only using magnets within a fish tank. But two pronounced their innocence and went to trial, which I covered for the BBC. A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. "I got 25 years. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department. Any attempts to make the force become less of a warrior and more of a guardian was looked at terribly, he said. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. 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. A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. Now, the lawyers were sitting with Paul Pineau, chief of staff to then Baltimore States Attorney Gregg Bernstein, according to an account of the meeting obtained by The Sun. 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 lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. The show briefly depicts Wayne Jenkins' wife in episode 5, and we are told that Wayne takes time off for the impending birth of his child. They also didnt give chase. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries. 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. Simon's new project will tell a fictionalised version of the Gun Trace Task Force saga, and began filming on the streets of Baltimore over the summer. The unit began looking into a case involving Jenkins, in which he had run down a young man with his unmarked Dodge Avenger early in 2014. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. Wayne Earl Jenkins tearfully told the court: "I've tarnished the badge", (L-R) Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, (L-R) Maurice Ward, Marcus Taylor, Momodu Gondo, Prosecutors showed evidence of Jenkins' building up the tools needed to do full-fledged robberies, Elbert Davis' daughters speak after Jenkins' sentencing, Former GTTF member Momodu Gondo testified during the trial, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. While he may not be ready to let go of his animus towards Jenkins, Stepp's strange journey seems - at least for now - to be heading towards a happy ending. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. All this happened over nothing, one of the brothers, Charles Lee, recalled recently. He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. Both men have requested new trials. When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. 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 . Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. "Immediately, we get together and you go over your story. 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. That's because in June 2018, Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison. I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. Now, the recommended punishment was significant: a demotion, a transfer and suspension for 15 to 20 days, including a period without pay, Hill told the television network Al-Jazeera. The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. 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. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. When I point out he already pleaded guilty to all these incidents, Jenkins tells me he only signed the agreement because he feared that if he went forward to trial, he could've wound up behind bars for life. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? 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. It was billed at the time as the largest cocaine seizure in department history, one of Jenkins many large-scale seizures. One of the most surprising witnesses was a man named Donald Stepp, a bail bondsman, who revealed that he'd been selling drugs Jenkins brought him from work. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. 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 admitted to knowing . This past summer, as I was wrapping up work on "Bad Cops", a strange email appeared in my inbox. Yes, I did," he says. Sgt. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. Plenty of times he's gone behind me and found them.. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. 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. But when I tell him that I've interviewed Wayne Jenkins, his one-time drug partner, Stepp is displeased, to put it mildly. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. 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. Wayne was a cops cop, local hero kind of guy, said Cirello, the retired officer. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. His eye socket was fractured. 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. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. 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. Baltimore detectives convicted in shocking corruption trial Stepp grew up in Middle River, where he was friends with Jenkins's older brother. His police department personnel file shows no punishment related to the case. Wayne Jenkins is a former BPD Sergeant who served as the leader of the Gun Trace Task Force. 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. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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. I did give drugs to Donny [Stepp, who testified he and Jenkins sold $1 million worth of narcotics] 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. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. This partnership lasted for five years. But Stepp had an ace up his sleeve - for months, he'd been documenting their crimes on his cell phone. "I'm here because of greed," he said. This kind of mindset assumes that the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force - many of them black and poor - deserved what happened to them. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. They testified he told them to carry BB guns to plant if they ever injured or killed an unarmed person, that he often took large quantities of drugs off of suspects without submitting them to the police evidence room. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. In December 2017, eight months after Jenkins was arrested, the FBI and Baltimore County officers broke down Stepp's door and arrested him in his kitchen. 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 ran me over because I was getting away.. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. The drop-offs included marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, all of which Stepp did his best to sell. 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. "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. 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. In an incident to which Jenkins would later plead guilty, the officers handcuffed two men. 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. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. the dim light of the Baltimore Police Departments downtown nerve center, Sgt. It was the perfect crime. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. 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). Used to tell me he won it playing poker.". View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. 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. They told me they were disturbed that he was being portrayed as a "monster". Read about our approach to external linking. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. Donny made every piece of that up.". No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. Last month, Mr De Sousa was indicted for failure to pay his taxes by the same prosecutors who brought the GTTF case. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes usually casual rather than uniforms. 2023 BBC. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. He is very remorseful.". 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. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. But thats likely not what triggered the unprovoked beating of OConnor. Here is everything you need to know about the real Jenkins and where he is now. Wayne Jenkins Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department/Associated Press. 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. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. He was scared. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. He ordered a detective to drive them to the hospital and joined the front lines. He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. He says Stepp pressured him into it. I mean, it had velocity, Jenkins said. If his arrest was stunning, the depiction of his civil rights violations, robberies and more wasnt news to everyone certainly not to people who had been in Jenkins sights, fairly or not, over the years. Plainclothes officers must constantly be checked by leadership, Barksdale said, with commanders inquiring about irregularities in their work and excessive overtime pay. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. Theres been plenty of times where the suspect has said, The drugs are in the car, and I go and I cant find them. . "Absolutely. I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". That creates a culture its not unique to Baltimore, but its pronounced here that those guys should be given a pass, Davis said. It was a red flag. 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. 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". He told the other officers to leave their cell phones and police vests in the car. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? Jenkins said. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. 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. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. He resigned and the top spot at the Baltimore Police Department remains vacant. 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