By the time his criminal streak was in full swing, it entailed high-stakes robberies and breaking and entering even as he was bringing in paychecks totaling over $170,000 in a year, in part because of overtime fraud. We'll never be the same again.". 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. 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 sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. Seething frustration was spilling into the streets that afternoon in 2015. But they needed more information. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. It was the perfect crime. Read about our approach to external linking. Some defense attorneys say their clients told them Jenkins had robbed them. Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. 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). 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". On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. 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. 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. It's a depressing fact that this is a viewpoint likely shared by many in Baltimore, and is a part of the reason why the GTTF got away with what they did for so long. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. Contact me.". 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. 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. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". The longest sentence was handed down to Jenkins: 25 years. That the GTTF's leader, a former Marine and amateur MMA fighter named Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, was a hero who'd plunged into a violent crowd during the unrest to rescue injured officers. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. 'You say this, you say that, right?' In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. Ward, now working with Jenkins for the first time, recalled the officers pulling over a car in East Baltimore that had two trash bags full of money. A strange back and forth with a man who used to be Jenkins' cell mate ultimately ended up with me in my closet waiting for that call. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. "We're not stupid. 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. But Stepp had an ace up his sleeve - for months, he'd been documenting their crimes on his cell phone. He's also at work on a memoir, which he says will reveal the contents of videos and photos he took of Jenkins that were never released publicly. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. Yes, I did," he says. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. In the years since his arrest, he'd never given a public interview. The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. 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. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". He tells me that the first time he ever stole money, he was just a rookie. 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. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. Read about our approach to external linking. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. 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. "I never took a thing. 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. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. 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. Jenkins rushed off to join them. And Jenkins, whod been identified as a rising talent early in his career, was celebrated among department brass and rank and file officers as a leader with an uncanny knack for delivering the goods. A few months after the OConnor incident, Jenkins was involved in another run-in where his sworn account was contradicted. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". 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. Investigators recommended Jenkins be demoted and suspended without pay. No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. 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. Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. A lot of what he told me was much more systematic. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. They'd known one another's families as children. Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. While he may not be ready to let go of his animus towards Jenkins, Stepp's strange journey seems - at least for now - to be heading towards a happy ending. He says he couldn't risk it as a father with a young family. 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. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. In an incident to which Jenkins would later plead guilty, the officers handcuffed two men. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". 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. One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes usually casual rather than uniforms. 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. 2023 BBC. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. He points to the plea agreement, in which Jenkins agreed that his cut of their drug sales came to roughly $250,000. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. 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". I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. the dim light of the Baltimore Police Departments downtown nerve center, Sgt. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? 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. 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. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. 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. 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 . 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. "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. A loyal friend. Then, in November 2017, he was given further charges of destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations, and deprivation of rights under color of law. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. As Jenkins is telling me this, he is naming names. HBO's new true-crime drama stars Jon Bernthal as Jenkins, with the show examining Jenkins' rise in the city's police department and eventual arrest after a two-year federal investigation into the GTTF. Once it left my shop they had reduced the punishment.. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. 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. Or harm you or even kill you.". 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. 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. Back before our interview, Jenkins' representative wanted me to speak to some of his old high school friends. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. Sneed. 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. Jenkins started calling Stepp to the scenes of arrests, encouraging Stepp to try to get inside drug dealer's hideouts to steal whatever cash or narcotics he could find. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. Wayne Jenkins fist felt like a hammer to Tim OConnors face. Instead, they go out looking for illegal activity people exchanging drugs or displaying bulges under clothing that could be guns. His account and Jenkins claim that hed found the gun is evocative of testimony by two of Jenkins officers in the 2018 Gun Trace Task Force trial. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. 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. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. 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. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . Such questions over integrity have in the past prompted prosecutors to stop calling an officer as a witness, forcing the departments hand to take him off the streets. He. But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. "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. He says he was told that because these officers were so successful at seizing guns, there was nothing to be done. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. He was also the ringleader of a criminal enterprise of police officers who were robbing people and dealing drugs. I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. He started to worry. 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 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. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". Please sign up today and help make a difference. I never aimed nothing at him . 49 . But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. "Now we're going to burn it down. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. 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. Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. 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. When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore.". This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Would they report the incident? In my conversation with Jenkins, he spent a lot of time disputing Stepp's account of their partnership. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. 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. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. 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 . 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'. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. 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). 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. If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. The same video led to a rare police department disciplinary case against Jenkins, who was internally charged with misconduct in 2015, according to a copy of the case file reviewed by The Sun. Within days, prosecutors issued a letter to police saying they were declining to charge Jenkins with a crime. "Absolutely. What had he gotten himself into? In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. 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. A plea agreement is a document that lists specific criminal acts that the defendant is agreeing to plead guilty to. And that's what I did.". It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. 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. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. On an oddly balmy January night, Jenkins and Fries were working the McElderry Park neighborhood in East Baltimore when they noticed two brothers drinking Steel Reserve beers on the sidewalk outside their rowhouse. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. 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. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. In Baltimore, theyre often referred to as knockers, a reference to their historically aggressive tactics. It feels a little bit like splitting hairs. 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. "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. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. 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