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. Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. ', "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.". 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. The bottles were winged at us. 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. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. He ordered a detective to drive them to the hospital and joined the front lines. Wayne Jenkins, who . At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. As adults, they ran into each other again at an underground card game frequented by Baltimore Police officers. One officer recalled Jenkins taunting colleagues waiting in line to submit evidence at police headquarters, bragging about how many guns he was getting off the street. 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. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. 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. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. When his case went to trial on January 5, 2018 Jenkins pled guilty to one count of racketeering, two counts of robbery, one count of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation, and four counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. Yes, I did," he says. I sold drugs as a dirty cop," he says. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. Sgt. But the scope and breadth of these allegations were staggering. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. He is very remorseful.". 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. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. 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. The fallout of the squad's crimes is still rippling through the city and undoubtedly made Baltimore a less safe place for everyone who lives there. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. You tried catching me all day, and you cant, because Im telling the truth, Jenkins told the lawyer. Would they report the incident? But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. Oh, yeah. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. 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. He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. "I deserve to be punished. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. "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.". 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. Investigators recommended Jenkins be demoted and suspended without pay. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. 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. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. Updated: Mar 1, 2023 / 02:16 PM EST. On June 7, 2018, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. 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. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? "And I remember taking the $10,000.". Baltimore detectives convicted in shocking corruption trial Stepp grew up in Middle River, where he was friends with Jenkins's older brother. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. He's opening a consulting service called Stepp Right Consultants, to give guidance and insight to men and women who are about to enter the federal penal system. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. The second declined to comment. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. 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. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. Contact me.". I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. Last month, Mr De Sousa was indicted for failure to pay his taxes by the same prosecutors who brought the GTTF case. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. Sneed was chased and caught, and his jaw was broken in the process. 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. 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. 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. It was there that the full extent of the officers' misconduct became public. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. We'll never be the same again.". The leaked case file doesnt say why. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. 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. 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. Hill told Al-Jazeera it was because then-Deputy Commissioner De Sousa got involved. I dont know the nuances, what was said, what wasnt. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. 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. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. "I still maintain my innocence. In another man's house, the GTTF broke into a safe and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. Sergeant Wayne. Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. 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. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . This just begun.". 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. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. 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 . 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. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". Wayne Jenkins. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. But two pronounced their innocence and went to trial, which I covered for the BBC. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". This past summer, as I was wrapping up work on "Bad Cops", a strange email appeared in my inbox. "It strikes at the foundation of our entire criminal justice system.". Jenkins rushed off to join them. That made it very tempting when, sometime around 2011, Jenkins approached Stepp and suggested they go into business together. 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'. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?". He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. This is his senior portrait from 1998. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. He gave me a few reasons. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. 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. From 2006 to 2009, Jenkins was the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging misconduct. 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. At trial, Jenkins and his boss denied any knowledge of who attacked OConnor. "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. 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 the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. For the past four years, Jessica Lussenhop has been reporting on the rise and fall of a corrupt squad of Baltimore police officers. 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. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. "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. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. But in less than a year, Sergeant Jenkins was put in charge of the new plainclothes squad in West Baltimore. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. He. After the indictments, one of Jenkins supervisors told Internal Affairs investigators she had believed he was the best gun cop this department has ever seen.. Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . 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. . Of all seven men, the last person I thought would ever agree to an interview was Jenkins, the fallen "golden boy" of the Baltimore Police Department. I have no idea what he wants to say, or why after four years, he's breaking his silence. When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. 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.. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. The longest sentence was handed down to Jenkins: 25 years. 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. Ward and the other cop followed Jenkins into the woods. 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. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. I couldn't help thinking about the many victims of the squad that I'd met over the three years I've been working on this story. Baltimore Police Sgt. It was Jenkins, fresh off his heroics in West Baltimore. But they needed more information. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. 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. Jenkins would stop bringing those big drug seizures to the evidence room, and instead give them to Stepp to sell. 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. Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. Despite Jenkins bravado, the jury found in favor of OConnor and awarded $75,000. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. Prosecutors pointed to the fact that Jenkins fabricated evidence, like producing a bogus iPhone video of his officers cracking a drug dealer's safe, when they had in fact already broken into it and stolen $200,000 in cash. Wayne Jenkins, who led . But Whiting is not so optimistic. "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.". Why cant I be like this guy?. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". 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. Inside the police department, the Gun Trace Task Force was known for its success in capturing suspected drug dealers, their stashes and their illegal firearms. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. 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. 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 . 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 is currently in prison. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. He admitted to knowing . The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. OConnor had spent much of the day tossing back beers at the Brewers Hill Pub & Grill in Southeast Baltimore when the manager asked him to leave. 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. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. 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. "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. 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. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved in several arrests that resulted in the injuries of the people he took into custody. At that time, I didnt think they were officers, Simon said. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. "Life in prison with three small children. "I'm here because of greed," he said. 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). 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. In part due to his cooperation in the case, he received a much shorter sentence than the officers of the GTTF. "I just go through this on a daily basis, scared of police, wondering when they gonna stop you, trying to plant drugs on you or something like that. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. But when I tell him that I've interviewed Wayne Jenkins, his one-time drug partner, Stepp is displeased, to put it mildly. the dim light of the Baltimore Police Departments downtown nerve center, Sgt. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. 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. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. It's going to happen again," he said. "Nobody still knows the truth about what's going on in the city," Taylor told the judge. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. Gillian Whitfield recalled Jenkins as sweet and always willing to lend a hand. Sure enough, no report was ever made. 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. 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