Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. 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. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. No one believed Oakley. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore.". 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. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. It was billed at the time as the largest cocaine seizure in department history, one of Jenkins many large-scale seizures. The second declined to comment. 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". He told me that frequently, when he or his fellow officers didn't feel like submitting the drugs they seized or doing arrest paperwork, they'd simply confiscate people's drug stashes and let them go. In a recent interview, Simon told The Sun, I never had no BB gun. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. He admitted to knowing . "I did, yes. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. By Josiah Bates. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. Jenkins, shown here with then-Commissioner Kevin Davis, was awarded a bronze star in April 2016 for his efforts to save injured officers during the unrest a year earlier. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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 ordered a detective to drive them to the hospital and joined the front lines. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. Sgt. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. 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. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. "This is Wayne.". Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. 3.4M views, 20K likes, 1.4K loves, 6.8K comments, 52K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Baltimore Sun: A criminal with a badge: A Baltimore Sun investigation into the story of Baltimore Police. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. Jenkins got a bronze star for his part in the 2009 recovery of 41 kilograms of cocaine $1 million worth in a mans truck. 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. 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. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. This just begun.". I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. He was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. 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. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. 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. "I still maintain my innocence. 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. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. "I never took a thing. 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 . Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? Stepp says Jenkins started bringing over shipments of drugs on an almost daily basis, putting them in a locked shed behind Stepp's house. When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. 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. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. But there was just enough room for doubt Sneed had been off camera briefly that Jenkins could argue the video didnt show the full story. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. 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). Sure enough, no report was ever made. Critics argue Barksdale was among police leaders who fostered a warrior culture, to the citys detriment. Jenkins, indignant, aggressively shot back at questions from OConnors attorney. 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. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. With the investigations behind him, Jenkins seemed emboldened. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. Over the course of four phone calls (courtesy of some traded bags of crisps), Jenkins paints a picture of the Baltimore Police Department as a place where indoctrination into corruption starts almost immediately. Then the feds found him. De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. 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. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". 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. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. He ran me over because I was getting away.. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. But in less than a year, Sergeant Jenkins was put in charge of the new plainclothes squad in West Baltimore. It was Jenkins, fresh off his heroics in West Baltimore. "I deserve to be punished. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. He said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. "I have no respect for him.". He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". But it's the big man upstairs," he says. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. Jenkins rushed off to join them. Finally, in March 2015, Internal Affairs chief Rodney Hill informed Jenkins that he was being charged internally with misconduct, neglect of duty and failure to supervise the officer in his charge, according to a leaked copy of the case file obtained by The Sun. I'm losing a lot of teeth, you know, they used to be nice and pretty.". 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. These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. ET on HBO. 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. "And I remember taking the $10,000.". They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries. To single him out as a flawed individual in an otherwise perfectly functioning system is a way to avoid change in the police department, to shirk the responsibility of actually preventing this from happening again. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. "I felt comfortable with it because all the police officers that I met, which were many during the card games, in my opinion, they owned the city," Stepp would later tell the jury at the GTTF trial. 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. Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. Weeks later, I search these locations myself to see if I can find anything. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. . Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. While no one should forget for an instant that Jenkins and his officers caused untold harm to Baltimore citizens, I don't find it helpful to try to write him off as a "monster". Ward and the other cop followed Jenkins into the woods. 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. 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. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. They claimed they didnt see who did it. 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. 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. "It's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. For the first three years of his sentence, Jenkins was doing time at the federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina . He says Stepp pressured him into it. Read about our approach to external linking. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. 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 said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. Wayne Jenkins will be played by Jon Bernthal, the same actor who portrayed "The Punisher". They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. Wayne Jenkins, who led . 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. Some tried to complain, but were ignored. 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 Department's go-to assets in the fight against violent crime. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. Over his tenure, he was. 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. 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. 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. 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. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. 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. 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. 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. Here is everything you need to know about the real Jenkins and where he is now. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. 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 . It was in 2007 that Jenkins became a part of the GTTF, a new unit of plain-clothed officers focused on targeting suspected criminals believed to have big supplies of guns and drugs, in a bid to reduce the city's high murder rate. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Arrest him, too, Jenkins yelled at the responding officers. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. Some of his men also have acknowledged stealing well before they came together on the Gun Trace Task Force in 2016. At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. He is very remorseful.". Jenkins and Fries would later say in sworn depositions that Sneed had been yelling expletives about police and throwing glass bottles at them. During the altercation, a passerby named George Sneed was assaulted by officer Robert Cirello who broke his jaw, leading Sneed to sue. 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. Would they report the incident? 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. All this happened over nothing, one of the brothers, Charles Lee, recalled recently. I asked him if he thinks that another scandal is inevitable. Jenkins, meanwhile, was the best officer I had working under my command, Fries said. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. He told the other officers to leave their cell phones and police vests in the car. I ask, slightly confused. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. 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 . A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. When I tell this to Stepp, he's angry. 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. 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. But I think he also spoke to me because he doesn't like the image of himself that's been in the media - as a sociopath, as someone almost inhumanly evil. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. 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. "Life in prison with three small children. 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. Your digital subscription helps pay for The Baltimore Sun's investigative reporting. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. He admitted to knowing . In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. The bottles were winged at us. 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). Many plainclothes units would work out of a satellite office inside a trailer in Northwest Baltimore. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. Taxpayers footed the bill. Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. They also didnt give chase. Back before our interview, Jenkins' representative wanted me to speak to some of his old high school friends. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. 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. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. This past summer, as I was wrapping up work on "Bad Cops", a strange email appeared in my inbox. 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 . At that time, it was within De Sousas purview as the deputy commissioner in charge of administrative matters to intervene to resolve a discipline case, according to another former deputy commissioner, Jason Johnson. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. 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. "Now we're going to burn it down. Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. And in the midst of that investigation, another arose. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. 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. Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption affected 1,700 criminal cases. ", 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. The officers with him hesitated, Ward 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". Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. In Justin Fenton's book We Own This City, on which the HBO series is based, the Baltimore Sun journalist explained that Jenkins would often be "caught in a lie" while giving evidence to a jury, but no complaints were put on his record. 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. Have we raised the possibility of a wire? Pineau asked. Shawn Whiting, a man whose house was robbed of $16,000 and a kilo-and-a-half of heroin, testified that he knew that as a drug dealer, his word counted for much less than the officers'. To learn more about their behavior, The Sun obtained several thousand pages of court records, dozens of body camera videos and hundreds of police department emails and restricted internal files. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. He's due to be released in 2038. 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. Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. 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