He suggested another option. 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. Baltimore detectives convicted in shocking corruption trial Stepp grew up in Middle River, where he was friends with Jenkins's older brother. 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. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. 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. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. He is working on a book about the Gun Trace Task Force, to be published by Random House. Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption affected 1,700 criminal cases. 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. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. "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.". The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. "I thought it was a winner.". 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 . Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. Then they could enter the house and take the money, only later calling county officers to say they were executing the warrant. Or harm you or even kill you.". 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. He was arrested along with almost every member of the unit in March 2017. But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. The tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. I wasnt privy. A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. 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 reality, he says, they were making arrests by any means necessary. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. Several of the former officers also took the stand - now wearing prison jumpsuits instead of uniforms - and detailed the tactics encouraged by their leader, Jenkins. 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. 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. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. 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. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. I thought, How is he doing it? According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. Someone once told me that it will take a generation for the direct impact of the Gun Trace Task Force to start to fade, and it will be impossible to measure how the victims' trauma will play out in the lives of their children, families and friends. Critics argue Barksdale was among police leaders who fostered a warrior culture, to the citys detriment. On June 7, 2018, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. 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. 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. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". 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. BALTIMORE One of the main players in the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal is asking for compassionate release from prison. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. "It's that simple.". His police department personnel file shows no punishment related to the case. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. He claims that he was told early on to lie on police reports and warrant applications in order to make their arrests sound like they were done with proper probable cause, meaning a legal reason to stop someone. His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes usually casual rather than uniforms. 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. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. "We're not stupid. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. His eye socket was fractured. I ask, slightly confused. His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. 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. Wayne Jenkins from Baltimore was sentenced to 25-years-in-prison. In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. Read about our approach to external linking. But Whiting is not so optimistic. 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. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. It was there that the full extent of the officers' misconduct became public. By Josiah Bates. He ran me over because I was getting away.. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. 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. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. In We Own This City, that dynamic is highlighted through the story of Wayne Jenkins - a star police officer played by The Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal, with a pretty solid Baltimore accent . At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. 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. He ordered a detective to drive them to the hospital and joined the front lines. A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. Read about our approach to external linking. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. 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. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. 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. In an incident to which Jenkins would later plead guilty, the officers handcuffed two men. 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 posed as a . I was a hero," Jenkins says of his activity during the unrest. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist Jessica Lussenhop from behind bars, and he claimed he never took money from Baltimore citizens. At that time, I didnt think they were officers, Simon 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". Read about our approach to external linking. 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. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. 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. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. During the altercation, a passerby named George Sneed was assaulted by officer Robert Cirello who broke his jaw, leading Sneed to sue. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. Later on, he claims, they'd throw the drugs out the window or down a sewer grate. Contact me.". 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. But Stepp had an ace up his sleeve - for months, he'd been documenting their crimes on his cell phone. Credit: Baltimore Police. They ordered us to f--- them up; we f---ed them up, one of the responding officers, Robert Cirello, now retired, said later in an interview with The Sun. 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. This partnership lasted for five years. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. 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. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. 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. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. Taxpayers footed the bill. Yes. He is very remorseful.". He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life". Ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins apologized in the courtroom for the crimes he committed at the same time as he was head of an elite squad referred to as the Gun Trace Task . Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. 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. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?". 2023 BBC. 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. Then they spilled out of the house and onto the sidewalk, struggling. Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. 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. It was difficult for me to understand and parse all of Jenkins' denials, now. . They also didnt give chase. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. 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. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. That made it very tempting when, sometime around 2011, Jenkins approached Stepp and suggested they go into business together. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? Sergeant Wayne. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. 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. You will not be charged for this call. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. . A few months after the OConnor incident, Jenkins was involved in another run-in where his sworn account was contradicted. Wayne Jenkins, who led . In fact, it's highly likely - if not certain - that many of the people Jenkins' put in prison himself had those tactics used on them by prosecutors. 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. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. What had he gotten himself into? 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. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". 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. But during the subsequent investigation, Frieman told detectives that he never saw a gun in Simons hand and that rather than being in imminent danger he was around a corner and out of sight when Jenkins ran down Simon. BALTIMORE The Baltimore City Board of Estimates paid out a $6 million settlement Wednesday to the family of a bystander who died during a police chase by the . Inside was a stack of bills. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". A squad of veteran police officers stood accused of committing numerous robberies, as well as extortion and overtime fraud. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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 . What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? 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. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. Despite the lawsuits and later, video evidence from his squads body cameras Jenkins supervisors failed to scrutinize the arrests he was making. It was a red flag. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. His punches came fast Jenkins was a trained boxer and OConnor soon felt the warmth of blood spilling down his cheek. 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. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. 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. 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. In Baltimore, theyre often referred to as knockers, a reference to their historically aggressive tactics. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. 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. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. Please sign up today and help make a difference. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. He was serving his sentence at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Facility in South Carolina until 2020. Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. "I deserve to be punished. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". Over his tenure, he was. "I got 25 years. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. 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). He gave me a few reasons. the dim light of the Baltimore Police Departments downtown nerve center, Sgt. If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. No one believed Oakley. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. 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. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. ET on HBO. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. 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. Some of his men also have acknowledged stealing well before they came together on the Gun Trace Task Force in 2016. "I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. I dont know the nuances, what was said, what wasnt. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. Marcus Taylor split up $20,000 in cash they stole in 2015. Credit: Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun, serving a federal sentence for tax evasion. He also apologised to Burley, who was not in the court, to his wife and to his father, and begged the judge for the opportunity to get out in time to be a grandfather. During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. "This is Wayne.". 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 . His wife is also depicted earlier in the series when Wayne, in his early days, attends a barbecue with his colleagues from the Baltimore Police Department and is annoyed by how they have more money than him. 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. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". I deserve to go to jail.". 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. He says Stepp pressured him into it. 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. Correction 11 June 2018: This article has been amended to make clear that prosecutors pointed to how 1,700 criminal cases have been affected by the unit's corruption. 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