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. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. You will not be charged for this call. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". 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 important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. That's because in June 2018, Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison. 2023 BBC. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. 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. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. He is very remorseful.". Investigators recommended Jenkins be demoted and suspended without pay. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption affected 1,700 criminal cases. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. "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. The tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. It's going to happen again," he said. One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. Jenkins is currently in prison. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. 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. The unit began looking into a case involving Jenkins, in which he had run down a young man with his unmarked Dodge Avenger early in 2014. 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. He was arrested along with almost every member of the unit in March 2017. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" On "Salon Talks" Bernthal reveals he spoke to the real Sgt. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. He couldn't get anyone to believe him at the time, and to this day, he fears law enforcement. On Friday, both detectives Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward were sentenced to seven years in prison. Here is everything you need to know about the real Jenkins and where he is now. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. They walked far enough so they couldnt be seen from the street. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. 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 earliest admitted theft was in 2011. The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. 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. Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. Wayne Jenkins, who . She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". In Justin Fenton's book We Own This City, on which the HBO series is based, the Baltimore Sun journalist explained that Jenkins would often be "caught in a lie" while giving evidence to a jury, but no complaints were put on his record. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. They told me they were disturbed that he was being portrayed as a "monster". OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. 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. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. His eye socket was fractured. Sergeant Wayne. 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 . 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. He says Stepp pressured him into it. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. 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. While researching the We Own This City true story, we confirmed that the real Wayne Jenkins had spent three years in the Marines before joining the Baltimore Police Department in 2003. He ordered a detective to drive them to the hospital and joined the front lines. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. Jenkins started calling Stepp to the scenes of arrests, encouraging Stepp to try to get inside drug dealer's hideouts to steal whatever cash or narcotics he could find. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. We knew he wasn't the straight-and-narrow cop that all cops are supposed to be," he said. "I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. ", 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.". "This is Wayne.". He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. 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. "I just go through this on a daily basis, scared of police, wondering when they gonna stop you, trying to plant drugs on you or something like that. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. He told the other officers to leave their cell phones and police vests in the car. As adults, they ran into each other again at an underground card game frequented by Baltimore Police officers. A line prosecutor, Molly Webb, had been notified by a defense attorney of the footage footage that the police department hadnt submitted to her. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". The drop-offs included marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, all of which Stepp did his best to sell. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. But the Baltimore states attorneys office continued to use Jenkins. 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. 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. 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. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. Used to tell me he won it playing poker.". Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Read the full story of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force, Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, NFL hopeful accused of racing in deadly car crash, Beer and wine sales in Canada fall to all-time low, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings. You didnt catch me in nothing.. "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.". "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. Jenkins, indignant, aggressively shot back at questions from OConnors attorney. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. They drive unmarked vehicles. 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. In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". But when the sun came up on 1 March 2017, the city awoke to a vastly different reality. He is working on a book about the Gun Trace Task Force, to be published by Random House. For the most part, these defendants decided it wasnt in their interest to tell government authorities that. 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. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. And were not getting Jenkins.. 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. Jenkins got a bronze star for his part in the 2009 recovery of 41 kilograms of cocaine $1 million worth in a mans truck. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. 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. It was billed at the time as the largest cocaine seizure in department history, one of Jenkins many large-scale seizures. The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. When I tell this to Stepp, he's angry. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". 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. All of the other officers would have to be inaccurate in their testimony if it is to be believed that Detective Jenkins was manufacturing information for the affidavit, she said. In the police academy, his peers saw a leader. 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. 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. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. We'll never be the same again.". Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. For the past four years, Jessica Lussenhop has been reporting on the rise and fall of a corrupt squad of Baltimore police officers. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. The matter was referred to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore states attorneys office for investigation. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. I have so many questions to ask, and I'm not sure if this will be my one and only opportunity to speak to him. The plaintiffs prevailed in three of them, either through a jury verdict or the citys decision to settle the case. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. "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. 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. 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. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. 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. "He's a pathological liar," Stepp says. "I still maintain my innocence. Baltimore detectives convicted in shocking corruption trial Stepp grew up in Middle River, where he was friends with Jenkins's older brother. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. "You have nightmares about police officers harassing you, beating you up, just locking you up, it's just a nightmare that I have and it basically hasn't gone away yet," he said. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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. "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. There is no love lost between these two former friends. Inside was a stack of bills. They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries. . Both men have requested new trials. It's going to take an almost unimaginable kind of effort to dig out the roots of corruption in the department, and it's much easier to just lock up the cops who get caught, and carry on with business as usual. The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. And Jenkins, whod been identified as a rising talent early in his career, was celebrated among department brass and rank and file officers as a leader with an uncanny knack for delivering the goods. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Later on, he claims, they'd throw the drugs out the window or down a sewer grate. 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. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. 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 Jenkins in prison,. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". 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. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. 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. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. 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. Wayne Jenkins, who led . 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. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. These units often operated with little supervision. He popped the trunk and carried the drugs into the garage. But in less than a year, Sergeant Jenkins was put in charge of the new plainclothes squad in West Baltimore. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. But two pronounced their innocence and went to trial, which I covered for the BBC. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. 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. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. But nothing more. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. "So you did take money, ultimately?" I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. 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. "It strikes at the foundation of our entire criminal justice system.". "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". "Now we're going to burn it down. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. Taxpayers footed the bill. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. In January, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired her police commissioner and replaced him with former Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, who promised sweeping reforms to the department. Such questions over integrity have in the past prompted prosecutors to stop calling an officer as a witness, forcing the departments hand to take him off the streets. Ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins apologised in court for the crimes he committed while heading an elite squad called the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF). While he may not be ready to let go of his animus towards Jenkins, Stepp's strange journey seems - at least for now - to be heading towards a happy ending. 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. 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. 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. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. 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. In a recent interview, Simon told The Sun, I never had no BB gun. Jenkins names two specific locations where he says the drugs get tossed: a train bridge near the Eastern District police station, and a wooded highway off-ramp on the way to the Northern District police station. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? 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 . The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. "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. 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. Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. . Hours later, in a quiet waterfront neighborhood 15 miles east of downtown, a drug-dealing bail bondsman was roused from his sleep. Theres been plenty of times where the suspect has said, The drugs are in the car, and I go and I cant find them. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. Baltimore Police Sgt. 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 . In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. 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