He was scared. April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. Wayne Jenkins, 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. He was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. "Nobody still knows the truth about what's going on in the city," Taylor told the judge. But thats likely not what triggered the unprovoked beating of OConnor. He gave me a few reasons. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. "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. I am Agent and Representative as to Mr Jenkins. According to testimony from Ward and Hendrix, Jenkins played an outsized role in the schemes. His eye socket was fractured. "Now we're going to burn it down. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. This past summer, as I was wrapping up work on "Bad Cops", a strange email appeared in my inbox. Jenkins was a member of the Baltimore police department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a plain-clothed unit tasked with finding guns and drugs in bulk in a bid to tackle the city's high murder. Credit: Baltimore Police. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. "I'm here because of greed," he said. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? I deserve to go to jail.". No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. 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. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. Despite Jenkins bravado, the jury found in favor of OConnor and awarded $75,000. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. Not likely, Ward thought. He has covered the Baltimore Police Department and crime in Baltimore since 2008. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. Sure enough, no report was ever made. He said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. This partnership lasted for five years. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". Any attempts to make the force become less of a warrior and more of a guardian was looked at terribly, he said. 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. 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'. In an incident to which Jenkins would later plead guilty, the officers handcuffed two men. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. Becoming Wayne Jenkins: Jon Bernthal's Deep Dive Into We Own This City 's Corrupt Cop For the HBO miniseries, the actor went on nightly ride-alongs and spoke at length with the imprisoned. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. 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. Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. He and other officers had raided a car wash, recovering more than a kilogram of drugs and $4,000 from a hidden desk compartment which could be opened only using magnets within a fish tank. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. They can let a suspect go, if they can lead to bigger fish. He was serving his sentence at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Facility in South Carolina until 2020. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. 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. It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. 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. 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. I wasnt privy. As adults, they ran into each other again at an underground card game frequented by Baltimore Police officers. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. 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. That made it very tempting when, sometime around 2011, Jenkins approached Stepp and suggested they go into business together. 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. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. 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. He is working on a book about the Gun Trace Task Force, to be published by Random House. "Absolutely. His punches came fast Jenkins was a trained boxer and OConnor soon felt the warmth of blood spilling down his cheek. Marcus Taylor split up $20,000 in cash they stole in 2015. Credit: Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun, serving a federal sentence for tax evasion. But they needed more information. Over his tenure, he was. Both men have requested new trials. 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. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. 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". In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. Despite the lawsuits and later, video evidence from his squads body cameras Jenkins supervisors failed to scrutinize the arrests he was making. Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. "It's a surreal story. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. 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. 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". Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. In part due to his cooperation in the case, he received a much shorter sentence than the officers of the GTTF. He popped the trunk and carried the drugs into the garage. In a 26 page letter hand written from his cell at the Federal Corrections institution in South Carolina, former Baltimore Police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins tells a judge that he saved a . But when I tell him that I've interviewed Wayne Jenkins, his one-time drug partner, Stepp is displeased, to put it mildly. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". Sneed was chased and caught, and his jaw was broken in the process. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. He says he couldn't risk it as a father with a young family. Although the indicted officers committed many robberies individually before joining the Gun Trace Task Force, prosecutors charge that they grew bolder and more prolific after Jenkins took over the unit in June 2016. "I ain't have a trial because the simple fact is I knew [the court] would believe them over top of me," he told the jury. 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. 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. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. 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. For the past four years, Jessica Lussenhop has been reporting on the rise and fall of a corrupt squad of Baltimore police officers. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. Read about our approach to external linking. The dealers would be sitting in a jail cell. Jenkins earned praise outside the department, too. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. 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.. No one believed Oakley. "I still maintain my innocence. 2023 BBC. ET on HBO. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. He was also the ringleader of a criminal enterprise of police officers who were robbing people and dealing drugs. 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. Or harm you or even kill you.". 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. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. In Baltimore, theyre often referred to as knockers, a reference to their historically aggressive tactics. 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 ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. They weren't being paid by the taxpayers to keep the city safe, and weren't operating with all the power and protections that police have. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". 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. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. None of the cases led to any police department discipline for Jenkins, his personnel records show. Plainclothes officers must constantly be checked by leadership, Barksdale said, with commanders inquiring about irregularities in their work and excessive overtime pay. After he was sent to federal lock-up, I wrote Jenkins a letter once a year - along with many other journalists, book authors, producers and documentary filmmakers - requesting an interview. It is simply not true., U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake denied Oakleys motion to suppress the evidence. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. 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. But two pronounced their innocence and went to trial, which I covered for the BBC. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. While no one should forget for an instant that Jenkins and his officers caused untold harm to Baltimore citizens, I don't find it helpful to try to write him off as a "monster". The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. 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. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. A lot of what he told me was much more systematic. I dont know the nuances, what was said, what wasnt. One of the most surprising witnesses was a man named Donald Stepp, a bail bondsman, who revealed that he'd been selling drugs Jenkins brought him from work. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. In my conversation with Jenkins, he spent a lot of time disputing Stepp's account of their partnership. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. 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. A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February. Read about our approach to external linking. He says he was told that because these officers were so successful at seizing guns, there was nothing to be done. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. ", Explaining the tactics of the GTTF, he also told the publication: "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest. 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. He. "It strikes at the foundation of our entire criminal justice system.". Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. The show briefly depicts Wayne Jenkins' wife in episode 5, and we are told that Wayne takes time off for the impending birth of his child. We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. 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. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. 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. 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. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. 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. 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. 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. "I never took a thing. Wayne Jenkins. Back before our interview, Jenkins' representative wanted me to speak to some of his old high school friends. He ran me over because I was getting away.. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. Wayne Jenkins, ex-police sergeant, leading the Gun Trace Task Force Sergeant Wayne Jenkins was a decorated leader of the corrupt plain-clothes police unit in Baltimore whose detectives robbed . "And I remember taking the $10,000.". 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. He suggested another option. "It ain't over. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. "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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Hill told Al-Jazeera it was because then-Deputy Commissioner De Sousa got involved. What if a complaint was made? But Whiting is not so optimistic. Jenkins got a bronze star for his part in the 2009 recovery of 41 kilograms of cocaine $1 million worth in a mans truck. The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. I was a hero," Jenkins says of his activity during the unrest. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. He says Stepp pressured him into it. What had he gotten himself into? In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. . A loyal friend. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. "It's that simple.". We'll never be the same again.". "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. "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. "I deserve to be punished. It was a red flag. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. 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. Many plainclothes units would work out of a satellite office inside a trailer in Northwest Baltimore. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. Judge Blake ultimately decided to sentence him to 25 years, saying she was taking into consideration the fact that he pleaded guilty and co-operated to some extent with the prosecutors. Once it left my shop they had reduced the punishment.. I asked him if he thinks that another scandal is inevitable. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. Then the feds found him. The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? Wayne Jenkins will be played by Jon Bernthal, the same actor who portrayed "The Punisher". Instead, they go out looking for illegal activity people exchanging drugs or displaying bulges under clothing that could be guns. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. He said they were confiscating the cash and 20 pounds of marijuana. 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. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. Inside was a stack of bills. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. . The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department. Jenkins, meanwhile, was the best officer I had working under my command, Fries said. It was Jenkins, fresh off his heroics in West Baltimore. 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. 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. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. 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. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. Critics argue Barksdale was among police leaders who fostered a warrior culture, to the citys detriment. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". "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.". Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore Police Sgt. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. Yes, I did," he says. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. It was billed at the time as the largest cocaine seizure in department history, one of Jenkins many large-scale seizures. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. The plaintiffs prevailed in three of them, either through a jury verdict or the citys decision to settle the case. "So you did take money, ultimately?" 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. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. 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. 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. 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 . The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. 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 . As Jenkins is telling me this, he is naming names. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. They drive unmarked vehicles. 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