It was Jenkins, fresh off his heroics in West Baltimore. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. 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. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. "I never took a thing. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. Donald Stepp was released from federal prison back in January of this year. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. Sure enough, no report was ever made. They told me they were disturbed that he was being portrayed as a "monster". We knew he wasn't the straight-and-narrow cop that all cops are supposed to be," he said. The message read: "Greetings. Some drug dealers told their lawyers that Jenkins made stuff up to arrest them and had kept a good chunk of their money and drugs before taking them in. He. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. He was scared. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. Jenkins rushed off to join them. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?". This partnership lasted for five years. BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore leaders agreed Wednesday to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who was killed during a 2010 police chase . However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. The leaked case file doesnt say why. In my conversation with Jenkins, he spent a lot of time disputing Stepp's account of their partnership. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. Would they report the incident? I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". . 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. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. Yes, I did," he says. 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 . In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Wayne Jenkins, who . 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. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . 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. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. Sergeant Wayne. Detectives Maurice Ward, Evodio Hendrix, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam all pleaded guilty. "I thought it was a winner.". My hope - maybe a naive one - was that hearing one of these men speak candidly about how he crossed over to the dark side would help the public better understand the casual, day-to-day corruption that can happen in policing. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". Not likely, Ward thought. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. 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. "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. 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. He gave me a few reasons. The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. This just begun.". It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". I continued working on this story for as long as I did out of some hope that the more the public learned about the corruption in the police department, the better chance there might be of some kind of true, systemic reform. I mean, it had velocity, Jenkins said. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. 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. But they needed more information. 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. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. Read about our approach to external linking. You tried catching me all day, and you cant, because Im telling the truth, Jenkins told the lawyer. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. He said they were confiscating the cash and 20 pounds of marijuana. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. Wayne Jenkins is a former BPD Sergeant who served as the leader of the Gun Trace Task Force. 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. At trial, Jenkins and his boss denied any knowledge of who attacked OConnor. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. Ward and the other cop followed Jenkins into the woods. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. He started to worry. 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. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. These units often operated with little supervision. It feels a little bit like splitting hairs. Inside was a stack of bills. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". 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 . Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. He is working on a book about the Gun Trace Task Force, to be published by Random House. 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. Using wiretaps and hidden recording devices, they had accumulated a wealth of evidence showing the officers were robbing citizens, filing for hundreds of hours of overtime they never worked, stealing drugs and even selling illegal firearms back on the streets. He suggested another option. Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. "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. But the Baltimore states attorneys office continued to use Jenkins. 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. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. A lot of what he told me was much more systematic. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. They might not have been believed anyhow. Over his tenure, he was. He was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. "So you did take money, ultimately?" "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. 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. I am Agent and Representative as to Mr Jenkins. Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. None of the cases led to any police department discipline for Jenkins, his personnel records show. He admitted to knowing . Yes. 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. De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. 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. 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. According to Jenkins convicted partner in the drug dealing, the police sergeant had been stealing drugs off the street for years and profiting from their illegal sale. The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. Jenkins lied to them, saying he was a federal agent. I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". He admitted to knowing . The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. 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. 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 . Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. Jenkins, who had been suspended during the investigation, went back to work, making no fewer than three dozen arrests over the rest of the year, most of them gun cases. Hill could not be reached by The Sun for comment. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. He acknowledged that he could tell something was off with Jenkins around the time of the GTTF crime spree. Credit: Baltimore Police. Please sign up today and help make a difference. 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. Then the feds found him. Plenty of times he's gone behind me and found them.. 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. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. There is no love lost between these two former friends. 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. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. 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. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. 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. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. 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. The same video led to a rare police department disciplinary case against Jenkins, who was internally charged with misconduct in 2015, according to a copy of the case file reviewed by The Sun. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Arrest him, too, Jenkins yelled at the responding officers. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. "I'm here because of greed," he said. Wayne Jenkins, who led . Some tried to complain, but were ignored. And yet, here we are, me in my closet "studio" and him at the front of a line of 20 to 30 other inmates, all waiting for their turn on the prison phone. Jenkins is currently in prison. Oh, yeah. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? 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. Simon's new project will tell a fictionalised version of the Gun Trace Task Force saga, and began filming on the streets of Baltimore over the summer. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. 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. It was during these games that Stepp heard Jenkins boasting about the large drug stashes he often came across during his work as a plainclothes police officer. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. And were not getting Jenkins.. 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. Prior to this, they'd been lauded as some of the best gun cops in the city - seizing dozens of illegal firearms every month, and demonstrating a "a work ethic that is beyond reproach", in the words of one supervisor. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. 2023 BBC. Sgt. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. 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. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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. You didnt catch me in nothing.. 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. ', "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.". During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . He was serving his sentence at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Facility in South Carolina until 2020. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. 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. 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. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. 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. "It's that simple.". No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. 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. But two pronounced their innocence and went to trial, which I covered for the BBC. ", 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.". "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. 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. "I got 25 years. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. The matter was referred to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore states attorneys office for investigation. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. His police department personnel file shows no punishment related to the case. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. Wayne Jenkins' police vehicle when he was arrested in 2017. He claims that he was told early on to lie on police reports and warrant applications in order to make their arrests sound like they were done with proper probable cause, meaning a legal reason to stop someone. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. A squad of veteran police officers stood accused of committing numerous robberies, as well as extortion and overtime fraud. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. 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. 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". "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". Until this point, I'd only heard Jenkins on secretly taped FBI recordings, wiretapped phone calls, body camera footage and at the hearing in June 2018 when a federal judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison. 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. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. 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. A loyal friend. For the most part, these defendants decided it wasnt in their interest to tell government authorities that. In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. "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. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. 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). The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? "I did, yes. 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 Department's go-to assets in the fight against violent crime. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. In Baltimore, theyre often referred to as knockers, a reference to their historically aggressive tactics. On an oddly balmy January night, Jenkins and Fries were working the McElderry Park neighborhood in East Baltimore when they noticed two brothers drinking Steel Reserve beers on the sidewalk outside their rowhouse. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. The prosecutors characterised both men as having less culpability in the GTTF's schemes and that Ward in particular had provided valuable information that lead to additional charges against other officers. That's because in June 2018, Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. 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. OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. 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