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. "He's a pathological liar," Stepp says. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. 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. You didnt catch me in nothing.. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. 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. Baltimore detectives convicted in shocking corruption trial Stepp grew up in Middle River, where he was friends with Jenkins's older brother. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. He was also the ringleader of a criminal enterprise of police officers who were robbing people and dealing drugs. From 2006 to 2009, Jenkins was the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging misconduct. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". 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. 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. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. 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. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". He says Stepp pressured him into it. According to testimony from Ward and Hendrix, Jenkins played an outsized role in the schemes. Inside was a stack of bills. You will not be charged for this call. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. And that's what I did.". 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. When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. Jenkins, meanwhile, was the best officer I had working under my command, Fries said. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. It's going to happen again," he said. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. 49 . 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. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. By Josiah Bates. Within days, prosecutors issued a letter to police saying they were declining to charge Jenkins with a crime. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. 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 line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". Why cant I be like this guy?. 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. His wife is also depicted earlier in the series when Wayne, in his early days, attends a barbecue with his colleagues from the Baltimore Police Department and is annoyed by how they have more money than him. Would they report the incident? I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. ', "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.". They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. 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 . Detectives Maurice Ward, Evodio Hendrix, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam all pleaded guilty. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. 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. Donny made every piece of that up.". . Contact me.". 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. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". Despite the lawsuits and later, video evidence from his squads body cameras Jenkins supervisors failed to scrutinize the arrests he was making. 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 . These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. Sgt. It was the perfect crime. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". He ordered a detective to drive them to the hospital and joined the front lines. 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. 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. 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. 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). Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. Then they spilled out of the house and onto the sidewalk, struggling. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. 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). They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. 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. 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. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. Critics argue Barksdale was among police leaders who fostered a warrior culture, to the citys detriment. Even though we've known for weeks that Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal), Daniel Hersl (Josh Charles), Jemell Rayam (Darrell Britt-Gibson) and the rest of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force were . There is no love lost between these two former friends. 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. Until this point, I'd only heard Jenkins on. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. Jenkins pleaded guilty in January and admitted taking part in at least 10 robberies of Baltimore citizens, planting drugs on innocent people and re-selling drugs he stole from suspects on an almost daily basis, including heroin, cocaine and prescription painkillers. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. Both men have requested new trials. Later in 2015, he took over a new squad of plainclothes officers within the latest rebranding, the Special Enforcement Section. 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. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. 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. Then the feds found him. "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. As Jenkins is telling me this, he is naming names. These units often operated with little supervision. However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. Sneed's attorney Michael Pulver concluded, per Fenton, that the officers had "fabricated this story to hide the fact that they intentionally assaulted and falsely arrested and imprisoned Mr. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. He said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. In 2018, Jessica wrote a piece which detailed the explosive trial at a Baltimore federal courthouse that revealed the unit's crimes, She then turned that story into a new seven-part podcast series called Bad Cops which you can listen to in its entirety below. "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. 2023 BBC. "We said, 'You know, he's robbin' the pieces of shit of Baltimore that are the reason that me and my kids can't walk down the street and feel safe," he says. Wayne Jenkins Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department/Associated Press. 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. 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. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. 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. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. 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. 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. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. Yes, I did," he says. His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. 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 . "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. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. He was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. "Now we're going to burn it down. 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. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. 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. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. The longest sentence was handed down to Jenkins: 25 years. Oh, yeah. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" It was surreal hearing his voice, talking to me. And in the midst of that investigation, another arose. They ordered us to f--- them up; we f---ed them up, one of the responding officers, Robert Cirello, now retired, said later in an interview with The Sun. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. 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. 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". 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. 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. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?". April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. "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.". "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. Sneed. I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. This is his senior portrait from 1998. This partnership lasted for five years. Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". 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. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. What had he gotten himself into? 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. Read about our approach to external linking. He. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. 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. 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. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. "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. 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. 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. Wayne Jenkins. 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. 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. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. In Baltimores recent history, the police department has consistently relied on such units, even though the conduct of many of their officers would draw criticism from city residents. But thats likely not what triggered the unprovoked beating of OConnor. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. 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. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. And Jenkins says, Did you look in the console? And he pulls the rug back and boom. If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. 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. 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