He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. Wayne Jenkins, who led . 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 still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. It was difficult for me to understand and parse all of Jenkins' denials, now. 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. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. 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. 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. 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. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . These units often operated with little supervision. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. 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. 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 was living a double life. Jenkins and Fries would later say in sworn depositions that Sneed had been yelling expletives about police and throwing glass bottles at them. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . There is no love lost between these two former friends. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. 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 told the other officers to leave their cell phones and police vests in the car. But during the subsequent investigation, Frieman told detectives that he never saw a gun in Simons hand and that rather than being in imminent danger he was around a corner and out of sight when Jenkins ran down Simon. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. He also names two former supervisors who he says he complained to about his former subordinate officers, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam, saying they had bad reputations for stealing money. Wayne was a cops cop, local hero kind of guy, said Cirello, the retired officer. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. It was a red flag. 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. Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. Wayne Jenkins Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department/Associated Press. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. 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 . 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. 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). Read about our approach to external linking. 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. 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. It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. 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. Wayne Jenkins posed as a . Please sign up today and help make a difference. Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. 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 BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. 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. "So you did take money, ultimately?" The fallout of the squad's crimes is still rippling through the city and undoubtedly made Baltimore a less safe place for everyone who lives there. In the police academy, his peers saw a leader. Wayne Jenkins is a former BPD Sergeant who served as the leader of the Gun Trace Task Force. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. 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 line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. 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. These misconduct allegations came as Jenkins was serving in various plainclothes units well before his appointment in 2016 to head the Gun Trace Task Force, one of the departments most celebrated plainclothes squads. One former supervisor never responded. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. Wayne Jenkins will be played by Jon Bernthal, the same actor who portrayed "The Punisher". Baltimore can be a complicated and dangerous place, and the men and women the officers targeted and abused may have caused harm and abuse themselves. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. 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. "Now we're going to burn it down. 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. . Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. 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. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. He suggested another option. 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. Oh, yeah. Yes, I did," he says. The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. 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. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. He. 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. He reviewed hours of body camera footage from their arrests, watched tapes of their courtroom appearances, reviewed several thousand pages of documents, including internal police department files, and interviewed dozens of people including two of the convicted officers, some of the gun unit's victims, other current and former Baltimore police officers and commanders, defense attorneys and prosecutors. 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. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. "I thought it was a winner.". Finally, in March 2015, Internal Affairs chief Rodney Hill informed Jenkins that he was being charged internally with misconduct, neglect of duty and failure to supervise the officer in his charge, according to a leaked copy of the case file obtained by The Sun. In February 2017, Jenkins was charged with two counts of racketeering conspiracy; racketeering, aiding and abetting; racketeering; two counts of robbery and aiding and abetting; and two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. He is very remorseful.". You will not be charged for this call. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? 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. "I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. "I still maintain my innocence. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. 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. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. "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. Donny made every piece of that up.". "We're not stupid. Credit: Baltimore Police. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. 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. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. Over his tenure, he was. Hill told Al-Jazeera it was because then-Deputy Commissioner De Sousa got involved. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". 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. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". Many plainclothes units would work out of a satellite office inside a trailer in Northwest Baltimore. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. 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 . He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. You didnt catch me in nothing.. 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. Why cant I be like this guy?. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. But they needed more information. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? Jenkins said. The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". Later on, he claims, they'd throw the drugs out the window or down a sewer grate. As adults, they ran into each other again at an underground card game frequented by Baltimore Police officers. He has covered the Baltimore Police Department and crime in Baltimore since 2008. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes usually casual rather than uniforms. 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. I ask. 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. It's propped up on top of a suitcase sitting on top of a plastic tub, and I'm holding my recorder and microphone at the ready. 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. As the leader of the unit, he received the longest prison sentence and the federal authorities who prosecuted the squad viewed him as its most culpable member. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. 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. We'll never be the same again.". He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. Later in 2015, he took over a new squad of plainclothes officers within the latest rebranding, the Special Enforcement Section. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. "It's that simple.". "This is Wayne.". Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. He points to the plea agreement, in which Jenkins agreed that his cut of their drug sales came to roughly $250,000. ", 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.". "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" 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. And Jenkins says, Did you look in the console? And he pulls the rug back and boom. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. Or harm you or even kill you.". They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. In December 2017, eight months after Jenkins was arrested, the FBI and Baltimore County officers broke down Stepp's door and arrested him in his kitchen. 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. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. Wayne Jenkins and his plainclothes colleagues operated in a world where success and misconduct were not mutually exclusive and sometimes seemed to go hand in hand. On Friday, both detectives Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward were sentenced to seven years in prison. 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. And that's what I did.". Then the feds found him. In part due to his cooperation in the case, he received a much shorter sentence than the officers of the GTTF. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. Detectives Maurice Ward, Evodio Hendrix, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam all pleaded guilty. Jenkins is currently in prison. "I could have spoken up.". Sneed. They drive unmarked vehicles. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. 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. 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. 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. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. Within days, prosecutors issued a letter to police saying they were declining to charge Jenkins with a crime. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. But the Baltimore states attorneys office continued to use Jenkins. But the scope and breadth of these allegations were staggering. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. Blake who in 2017 would wind up presiding over the Gun Trace Task Force corruption case noted that the other officers present backed Jenkins account. What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. "Life in prison with three small children. Five years later, Simons claims were confirmed. Despite Jenkins bravado, the jury found in favor of OConnor and awarded $75,000. 'You say this, you say that, right?' Far from it. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. 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. Someone once told me that it will take a generation for the direct impact of the Gun Trace Task Force to start to fade, and it will be impossible to measure how the victims' trauma will play out in the lives of their children, families and friends. 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