During his trial, on January 5, 2018, Jenkins pled guilty to one count of racketeering, two counts of robbery, one count of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation, and four counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. 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. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. "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.". Jenkins, meanwhile, was the best officer I had working under my command, Fries said. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". There's no telling how many other people were affected, but were too afraid to come forward. But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. It was the perfect crime. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. 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. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. "I never took a thing. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. 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 . One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. "It strikes at the foundation of our entire criminal justice system.". But it's the big man upstairs," he says. His eye socket was fractured. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? 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. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. 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. I ask. Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. On Friday, both detectives Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward were sentenced to seven years in prison. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. In a recent interview, Simon told The Sun, I never had no BB gun. Detectives Maurice Ward, Evodio Hendrix, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam all pleaded guilty. 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. 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. 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. Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption affected 1,700 criminal cases. He gave me a few reasons. "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. 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. 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. 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. He also says that he only made roughly $75,000 off of the narcotic sales, as opposed to the figure put on it by Stepp. Jenkins earned praise outside the department, too. But they needed more information. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. Wayne Jenkins Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department/Associated Press. 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. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. 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. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. Updated: Mar 1, 2023 / 02:16 PM EST. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. 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. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. He was scared. Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. 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. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. "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. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? Jenkins said. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. 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 . "It ain't over. In reality, he says, they were making arrests by any means necessary. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. 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). Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. He told the other officers to leave their cell phones and police vests in the car. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". What had he gotten himself into? His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. 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. No one believed Oakley. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. 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. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. 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. "I'm so sorry for what you're going through. I am Agent and Representative as to Mr Jenkins. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. "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. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . The longest sentence was handed down to Jenkins: 25 years. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. 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. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. 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. Once it left my shop they had reduced the punishment.. Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. They'd known one another's families as children. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. 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. Wayne Jenkins, who led . Contact me.". Credit: Baltimore Police. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. Investigators recommended Jenkins be demoted and suspended without pay. 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 . 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. He was arrested along with almost every member of the unit in March 2017. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". In the spring of 2015, the city of Baltimore was rocked by civil unrest after the in-custody death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. But overall, plaintiffs prevailed in at least three lawsuits accusing Jenkins of beatings or other misconduct from 2006 to 2009, resulting in $90,000 in taxpayer payouts. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. 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. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist Jessica Lussenhop from behind bars, and he claimed he never took money from Baltimore citizens. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. 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 knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. The tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. 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. 'You say this, you say that, right?' "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. You tried catching me all day, and you cant, because Im telling the truth, Jenkins told the lawyer. "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest. It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. They also didnt give chase. "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. By Josiah Bates. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. During the altercation, a passerby named George Sneed was assaulted by officer Robert Cirello who broke his jaw, leading Sneed to sue. 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 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. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. ", 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 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 . We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. Baltimore Police Sgt. Some tried to complain, but were ignored. He admitted to knowing . Former Baltimore Police Sgt. 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. 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 . In a 26 page letter hand written from his cell at the Federal Corrections institution in South Carolina, former Baltimore Police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins tells a judge that he saved a . What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. "We're not stupid. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. Sergeant Wayne. He suggested another option. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. I have so many questions to ask, and I'm not sure if this will be my one and only opportunity to speak to him. As the leader of the unit, he received the longest prison sentence and the federal authorities who prosecuted the squad viewed him as its most culpable member. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. "We said, 'You know, he's robbin' the pieces of shit of Baltimore that are the reason that me and my kids can't walk down the street and feel safe," he says. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. Sgt. You will not be charged for this call. April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. 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. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. But Davis, Baltimores police commissioner from 2015 to 2018 and a veteran of two other departments, calls plainclothes units necessary and critical to the crime fight. They go looking for guns and drugs, he said, and often are successful. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. But Stepp had an ace up his sleeve - for months, he'd been documenting their crimes on his cell phone. 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. 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. But most people who worked with him police and prosecutors asserted to The Sun they had no idea he and his officers were involved in criminal behavior. ', "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 crimejust get him.". This past summer, as I was wrapping up work on "Bad Cops", a strange email appeared in my inbox. No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. Maurice Ward, a former detective now serving a seven-year prison term for committing crimes with Jenkins, said he and other officers jockeyed to get on his team. Marcus Taylor split up $20,000 in cash they stole in 2015. Credit: Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun, serving a federal sentence for tax evasion. Then-Police Commissioner Anthony Batts had created a Force Investigation Team to inspire public trust that police leaders were keeping an eye on officers use of force. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. These units often operated with little supervision. 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. It was a red flag. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. Baltimore detectives convicted in shocking corruption trial Stepp grew up in Middle River, where he was friends with Jenkins's older brother. Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. For the first three years of his sentence, Jenkins was doing time at the federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina . He said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. 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. Donald Stepp was released from federal prison back in January of this year. They claimed they didnt see who did it. Some defense attorneys say their clients told them Jenkins had robbed them. De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. 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 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. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. 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 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. Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, along with Detectives Marcus Taylor and Maurice Ward, intercepted a drug deal at the Belvedere Towers in Baltimore and seized about 20 to 25 pounds of marijuana as well as $20,000 to $25,000 in a second bag. Oh, yeah. 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. 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