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. He. 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. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. Used to tell me he won it playing poker.". He suggested another option. 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. They might not have been believed anyhow. 2023 BBC. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. 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. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. Theres been plenty of times where the suspect has said, The drugs are in the car, and I go and I cant find them. 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. They drive unmarked vehicles. The leader of a rogue Baltimore police unit sobbed as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a corruption scandal prosecutors called "breathtaking". Later in 2015, he took over a new squad of plainclothes officers within the latest rebranding, the Special Enforcement Section. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. 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. However, the focus on quantity rather than quality led Jenkins and the seven other GTTF officers to start planting evidence, take money from the homes they invaded, and even resell the drugs they seized back onto the streets. 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. "Absolutely. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. But the scope and breadth of these allegations were staggering. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. The longest sentence was handed down to Jenkins: 25 years. Contact me.". Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. It's going to take an almost unimaginable kind of effort to dig out the roots of corruption in the department, and it's much easier to just lock up the cops who get caught, and carry on with business as usual. 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. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. It's going to happen again," he said. 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. 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. "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. Read about our approach to external linking. And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. 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. They walked far enough so they couldnt be seen from the street. He says he was told that because these officers were so successful at seizing guns, there was nothing to be done. 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 . Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. 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. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. Then they spilled out of the house and onto the sidewalk, struggling. "I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. 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. In another man's house, the GTTF broke into a safe and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. "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. Last month, Mr De Sousa was indicted for failure to pay his taxes by the same prosecutors who brought the GTTF case. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? 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. At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. "I'm so sorry for what you're going through. 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. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life". The bottles were winged at us. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. It was Jenkins, fresh off his heroics in West Baltimore. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist Jessica Lussenhop from behind bars, and he claimed he never took money from Baltimore citizens. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. Marcus Taylor split up $20,000 in cash they stole in 2015. Credit: Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun, serving a federal sentence for tax evasion. Sure enough, no report was ever made. He couldn't get anyone to believe him at the time, and to this day, he fears law enforcement. 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. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. Inside was a stack of bills. But they needed more information. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. 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. 'You say this, you say that, right?' It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. The tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. "I thought it was a winner.". The BBC is not naming these three former supervisors, since none of them has been charged with a crime in connection with this case. 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. 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. 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 . "This is Wayne.". Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. Read about our approach to external linking. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. "So you did take money, ultimately?" The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. 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. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. I have no idea what he wants to say, or why after four years, he's breaking his silence. Police who went rogue - Wayne Jenkins and Momodu Gondo, Jenkins, centre, before he took command of the Gun Trace Task Force, Clockwise from top left: Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, Maurice Ward, Marcus Taylor, Momodu Gondo, Equipment that two of the GTTF officers testified was going to be used for home invasions, Donald Stepp inside Baltimore Police headquarters, in a photo taken by Wayne Jenkins, Shawn Whiting, centre, at a press conference held by victims of the GTTF. The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. 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. When I tell this to Stepp, he's angry. But nothing more. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. Both men have requested new trials. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. Plainclothes officers must constantly be checked by leadership, Barksdale said, with commanders inquiring about irregularities in their work and excessive overtime pay. 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. 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. Baltimore Police Sgt. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. 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. ET on HBO. You didnt catch me in nothing.. "I have no respect for him.". 49 . 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. Back before our interview, Jenkins' representative wanted me to speak to some of his old high school friends. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. 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. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". Donald Stepp was released from federal prison back in January of this year. And were not getting Jenkins.. The actions of former Baltimore police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers in the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) are explored in We Own This City. ", 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.". The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. But in less than a year, Sergeant Jenkins was put in charge of the new plainclothes squad in West Baltimore. Here's what the public was led to believe about the Gun Trace Task Force, before the FBI arrested almost every member of the squad: That in a city still reeling from the civil unrest that followed the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the GTTF was a bright spot in a department under a dark cloud. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. 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. I thought, How is he doing it? 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 . Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. Within days, prosecutors issued a letter to police saying they were declining to charge Jenkins with a crime. He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. He is very remorseful.". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. He has covered the Baltimore Police Department and crime in Baltimore since 2008. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Read the full story of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force, Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, NFL hopeful accused of racing in deadly car crash, Beer and wine sales in Canada fall to all-time low, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings. Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption affected 1,700 criminal cases. 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. 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. 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 plea agreement is a document that lists specific criminal acts that the defendant is agreeing to plead guilty to. But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. 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 said they were confiscating the cash and 20 pounds of marijuana. "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.". Please sign up today and help make a difference. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. We'll never be the same again.". In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. It was the perfect crime. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. Jenkins lied to them, saying he was a federal agent. He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . . The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. I was a hero," Jenkins says of his activity during the unrest. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. "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. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. 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. 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. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. 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. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. 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. 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. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. Wayne Jenkins, who led . But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. What if a complaint was made? Wayne Jenkins will be played by Jon Bernthal, the same actor who portrayed "The Punisher". Jenkins also tells me that any time an officer's misconduct gets picked up by Internal Affairs or by an outside law enforcement agency, it was routine for the involved officers to meet up, to tailor their stories to avoid punishment. On June 13, 2016, Jenkins became the Officer in Charge of the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF,) a specialized unit within the Operational Investigation Division of the BPD. I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. 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. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. 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. He popped the trunk and carried the drugs into the garage. 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. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. "It's a surreal story. 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. 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. 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". The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. 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. Then 34, he was already an admired leader of aggressive street squads and would go on to head the elite Gun Trace Task Force, one of the Baltimore Police Departments go-to assets in the fight against violent crime. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. It was a red flag. His punches came fast Jenkins was a trained boxer and OConnor soon felt the warmth of blood spilling down his cheek. "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. 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. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. Now, the recommended punishment was significant: a demotion, a transfer and suspension for 15 to 20 days, including a period without pay, Hill told the television network Al-Jazeera. Jenkins and Fries would later say in sworn depositions that Sneed had been yelling expletives about police and throwing glass bottles at them. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. He admitted to knowing . I'm losing a lot of teeth, you know, they used to be nice and pretty.". Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. While Jenkins most serious crimes the drug dealing, the robberies appear to have been well hidden, it is not surprising they flourished within Baltimores permissive plainclothes culture. 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. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. In January, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired her police commissioner and replaced him with former Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, who promised sweeping reforms to the department. In reality, he says, they were making arrests by any means necessary. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. From 2006 to 2009, Jenkins was the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging misconduct. 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