As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. For example, in January 2006, Jenkins and Sergeant Michael Fries had an altercation with brothers Charles and Robert Lee after they continued to drink beer on the front step of their grandmother's home when the policemen had told them to stop. 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. 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. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. I never aimed nothing at him . During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . But when the sun came up on 1 March 2017, the city awoke to a vastly different reality. No one believed Oakley. His eye socket was fractured. Credit: Baltimore Police. Inside the police department, the Gun Trace Task Force was known for its success in capturing suspected drug dealers, their stashes and their illegal firearms. 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". Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. But I think he also spoke to me because he doesn't like the image of himself that's been in the media - as a sociopath, as someone almost inhumanly evil. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. Taxpayers footed the bill. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. That's because in June 2018, Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison. They'd known one another's families as children. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. 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. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. It was Jenkins, fresh off his heroics in West Baltimore. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. Now, the lawyers were sitting with Paul Pineau, chief of staff to then Baltimore States Attorney Gregg Bernstein, according to an account of the meeting obtained by The Sun. Near Druid Hill Park, amid the shouting, sirens and buzzing choppers overhead, he commandeered a state prison department van and helped pull injured officers inside. According to testimony from Ward and Hendrix, Jenkins played an outsized role in the schemes. 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. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. 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. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. Others were raised by defense attorneys and their clients, who said an overzealous Jenkins skirted legal standards in making arrests. In Baltimore, theyre often referred to as knockers, a reference to their historically aggressive tactics. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. 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. 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. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. 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. Oh, yeah. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. 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. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. The matter was referred to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore states attorneys office for investigation. Wayne Jenkins. We'll never be the same again.". Then the feds found him. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". The message read: "Greetings. 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. "This is Wayne.". The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. He. "It's that simple.". "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. But they needed more information. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. I ask. Yes, I did," he says. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. Wayne Jenkins who was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for years of robberies, drug dealing and other crimes has asked a judge to release him just four . Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. 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.. I asked him if he thinks that another scandal is inevitable. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. 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. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. 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. They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. Five years later, Simons claims were confirmed. April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. 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". But Internal Affairs was still working on the case that the States Attorneys Office had decided it could not pursue: the suspicion that Jenkins might have planted drugs in a car to justify an arrest. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, L-R: Former Baltimore police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and Jon Bernthal as Jenkins in HBO true-crime drama "We Own This City. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. There is no love lost between these two former friends. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. Donny made every piece of that up.". It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". 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. 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. Some tried to complain, but were ignored. In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. 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. "We're not stupid. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. I deserve to go to jail.". His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. ", 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. 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. OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. "I'm so sorry for what you're going through. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. Wayne Earl Jenkins tearfully told the court: "I've tarnished the badge", (L-R) Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, (L-R) Maurice Ward, Marcus Taylor, Momodu Gondo, Prosecutors showed evidence of Jenkins' building up the tools needed to do full-fledged robberies, Elbert Davis' daughters speak after Jenkins' sentencing, Former GTTF member Momodu Gondo testified during the trial, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. He started to worry. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. He acknowledged that he could tell something was off with Jenkins around the time of the GTTF crime spree. 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. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. 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. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. Wayne Jenkins' police vehicle when he was arrested in 2017. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. He couldn't get anyone to believe him at the time, and to this day, he fears law enforcement. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. 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. 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. FOX45 looks at the 8 former officers of the Gun Trace Task ForceThe ring leader of the squad Wayne Jenkins is currently serving the longest sentence out of the members federally indicted on . At the trial four years later, Jenkins and his fellow officers claimed that the witness had been throwing bottles at them, but security camera footage shown at the trial proved what Jenkins claimed was not true. 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 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. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. 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. However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. 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. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. 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. 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. These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. Reflecting on the revelations of his misconduct, Lt. Marjorie German concluded that department leaders gave Jenkins too much leeway because they were enamored of his results. Stepp says Jenkins started bringing over shipments of drugs on an almost daily basis, putting them in a locked shed behind Stepp's house. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. What if a complaint was made? They drive unmarked vehicles. "It's a surreal story. "So you did take money, ultimately?" "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. Later on, he claims, they'd throw the drugs out the window or down a sewer grate. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. Once it left my shop they had reduced the punishment.. 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. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. 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. I also point out to him that it's a fairly common practice for prosecutors to level charges that are so serious that the defendant feels they have no choice but to plead guilty. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? "It ain't over. Read about our approach to external linking. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. Then they could enter the house and take the money, only later calling county officers to say they were executing the warrant. 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. A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty. A loyal friend. And were not getting Jenkins.. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. 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. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. 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. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. "I never took a thing. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. 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. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. These units often operated with little supervision. 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. 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. 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. 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. Hill told Al-Jazeera it was because then-Deputy Commissioner De Sousa got involved. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. "I'm in prison for 25 years, there's no reason to lie.". Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . 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. I thought, How is he doing it? Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. Instead, they go out looking for illegal activity people exchanging drugs or displaying bulges under clothing that could be guns. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. Sneed. 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. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. Weeks later, I search these locations myself to see if I can find anything. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. "I'm here because of greed," he said. "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. 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 . I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. 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