Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. 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. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. That's because in June 2018, Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. 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 is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. 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. Jenkins, who until his arrest was viewed within the Baltimore Police Department as one of its most high-performing officers, is serving 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in 2017 to. 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). 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. He counters that the units helped bring down crime, and says he made it a point to scrutinize their conduct. 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 message read: "Greetings. Oh, yeah. 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. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. The second declined to comment. 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 resigned and the top spot at the Baltimore Police Department remains vacant. But two pronounced their innocence and went to trial, which I covered for the BBC. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? 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. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. In Baltimore, theyre often referred to as knockers, a reference to their historically aggressive tactics. Burley's vehicle struck another, killing Mr Davis. 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. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. 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. By Josiah Bates. 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. . Sergeant Wayne. At the trial four years later, Jenkins and his fellow officers claimed that the witness had been throwing bottles at them, but security camera footage shown at the trial proved what Jenkins claimed was not true. 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. 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. You tried catching me all day, and you cant, because Im telling the truth, Jenkins told the lawyer. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. That while the homicide rate was on a historic rise, this elite, eight-officer team was getting guns off the streets at an astonishing rate. In Jenkins' plea, it says that "in April 2015 following the riots after the death of Freddie Gray, Jenkins brought DS prescription medicines that he had stolen from someone looting a pharmacy so that DS could sell the medications". I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. OConnor, a house painter who missed weeks of work because of his injuries, sued Jenkins and put forward witnesses who backed his account: After OConnor yelled at Fries, officers had pulled him to the ground, and Jenkins walloped him. 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. And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. 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. A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty. Blake who in 2017 would wind up presiding over the Gun Trace Task Force corruption case noted that the other officers present backed Jenkins account. In November 2012, Wayne Jenkins was promoted to the rank of sergeant giving him new authority and freedom. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. 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. 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. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. 2023 BBC. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. I sold drugs as a dirty cop," he says. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. "Immediately, we get together and you go over your story. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? 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. During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . Wayne was a cops cop, local hero kind of guy, said Cirello, the retired officer. 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. Then the feds found him. 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. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. "I could have spoken up.". "I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. 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. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. Reflecting on the revelations of his misconduct, Lt. Marjorie German concluded that department leaders gave Jenkins too much leeway because they were enamored of his results. I never heard back from the Baltimore Police Department. A few months after the OConnor incident, Jenkins was involved in another run-in where his sworn account was contradicted. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. 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. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. Any attempts to make the force become less of a warrior and more of a guardian was looked at terribly, he said. According to Jenkins convicted partner in the drug dealing, the police sergeant had been stealing drugs off the street for years and profiting from their illegal sale. But when the sun came up on 1 March 2017, the city awoke to a vastly different reality. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. Updated: Mar 1, 2023 / 02:16 PM EST. 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. 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. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". He is working on a book about the Gun Trace Task Force, to be published by Random House. And were not getting Jenkins.. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. My hope - maybe a naive one - was that hearing one of these men speak candidly about how he crossed over to the dark side would help the public better understand the casual, day-to-day corruption that can happen in policing. Credit: Baltimore Police. 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. The drop-offs included marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, all of which Stepp did his best to sell. He admitted to knowing . It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. He popped the trunk and carried the drugs into the garage. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. "Absolutely. Instead, they go out looking for illegal activity people exchanging drugs or displaying bulges under clothing that could be guns. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. He admitted to knowing . 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. 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. 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.. It's going to happen again," he said. 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". Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. 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. 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. 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. The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. He ran me over because I was getting away.. In an incident to which Jenkins would later plead guilty, the officers handcuffed two men. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. Why cant I be like this guy?. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. Would they report the incident? In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. "It was obvious to me, when I'm taking millions of dollars worth of drugs from the Baltimore Police Department and selling them, that this is not a normal police department.". Sure enough, no report was ever made. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist Jessica Lussenhop from behind bars, and he claimed he never took money from Baltimore citizens. "It's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore.". "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. Detectives Maurice Ward, Evodio Hendrix, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam all pleaded guilty. "It's that simple.". So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. And in the midst of that investigation, another arose. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . Jenkins rushed off to join them. It was surreal hearing his voice, talking to me. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. Hours later, in a quiet waterfront neighborhood 15 miles east of downtown, a drug-dealing bail bondsman was roused from his sleep. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. On Friday, both detectives Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward were sentenced to seven years in prison. Wayne Jenkins, who led . And Jenkins, whod been identified as a rising talent early in his career, was celebrated among department brass and rank and file officers as a leader with an uncanny knack for delivering the goods. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. 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. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. But Stepp had an ace up his sleeve - for months, he'd been documenting their crimes on his cell phone. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. 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). 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. A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. Some tried to complain, but were ignored. It was there that the full extent of the officers' misconduct became public. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. ", 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. He says Stepp pressured him into it. 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 . 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. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. Contact me.". Many plainclothes units would work out of a satellite office inside a trailer in Northwest Baltimore. Wayne Jenkins. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. "He's like, 'I'm not telling you to do anything, I'm just saying it sure would be nice if we had $10,000 apiece to go up to Atlantic City,'" Jenkins recalls. 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. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. Judge Blake ultimately decided to sentence him to 25 years, saying she was taking into consideration the fact that he pleaded guilty and co-operated to some extent with the prosecutors. 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. 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. For example, in January 2006, Jenkins and Sergeant Michael Fries had an altercation with brothers Charles and Robert Lee after they continued to drink beer on the front step of their grandmother's home when the policemen had told them to stop. 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. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. 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. 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 . In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. 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. ET on HBO. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. Then he said something that struck Ward as bizarre: He said he was going to take the marijuana to his home, and burn it all. He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. 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 . We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. In another man's house, the GTTF broke into a safe and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. "I thought it was a winner.". So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. "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.". "I did, yes. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. Until this point, I'd only heard Jenkins on secretly taped FBI recordings, wiretapped phone calls, body camera footage and at the hearing in June 2018 when a federal judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison. It was difficult for me to understand and parse all of Jenkins' denials, now. . 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. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. 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 . Please sign up today and help make a difference. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. That creates a culture its not unique to Baltimore, but its pronounced here that those guys should be given a pass, Davis said. Read about our approach to external linking. Far from it. Your digital subscription helps pay for The Baltimore Sun's investigative reporting. He was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. 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. Some defense attorneys say their clients told them Jenkins had robbed them. He was serving his sentence at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Facility in South Carolina until 2020. 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