The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. Maurice Ward, a former detective now serving a seven-year prison term for committing crimes with Jenkins, said he and other officers jockeyed to get on his team. Last month, Mr De Sousa was indicted for failure to pay his taxes by the same prosecutors who brought the GTTF case. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? 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. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. Plainclothes officers must constantly be checked by leadership, Barksdale said, with commanders inquiring about irregularities in their work and excessive overtime pay. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. Then the feds found him. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. The leaked case file doesnt say why. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. Any attempts to make the force become less of a warrior and more of a guardian was looked at terribly, he said. 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. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. There's no telling how many other people were affected, but were too afraid to come forward. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. There is no love lost between these two former friends. I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. 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. 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. They can let a suspect go, if they can lead to bigger fish. However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. Turmoil has continued at the Baltimore Police Department, an agency that saw four commissioners in little more than a year among them De Sousa, now in prison for tax fraud. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. 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. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. He. But Davis, Baltimores police commissioner from 2015 to 2018 and a veteran of two other departments, calls plainclothes units necessary and critical to the crime fight. They go looking for guns and drugs, he said, and often are successful. He is very remorseful.". I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. It was the perfect crime. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. Weeks later, I search these locations myself to see if I can find anything. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. Would they report the incident? What if a complaint was made? Then, in November 2017, he was given further charges of destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations, and deprivation of rights under color of law. 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. "It's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. 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. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. 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. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. His eye socket was fractured. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. 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. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. I mean, it had velocity, Jenkins said. 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. 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. Why cant I be like this guy?. Wayne Jenkins' police vehicle when he was arrested in 2017. ", 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.". They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. 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. "We're not stupid. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. He popped the trunk and carried the drugs into the garage. Wayne Jenkins posed as a . It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. They walked far enough so they couldnt be seen from the street. Jenkins was given a 25-year prison sentence on June 7, 2018, which he is currently in the midst of serving at a federal prison in Kentucky. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. He was scared. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. 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. "Nobody still knows the truth about what's going on in the city," Taylor told the judge. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. 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. He points to the plea agreement, in which Jenkins agreed that his cut of their drug sales came to roughly $250,000. The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. We'll never be the same again.". 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. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. Yes. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. He gave me a few reasons. 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". And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. Correction 11 June 2018: This article has been amended to make clear that prosecutors pointed to how 1,700 criminal cases have been affected by the unit's corruption. "It ain't over. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. 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. 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. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. They drive unmarked vehicles. Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. 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. By Josiah Bates. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. He says Stepp pressured him into it. For example, I asked him about the robbery of a man who lived in a large mansion in the suburbs of Baltimore - a robbery he pled guilty to in his plea agreement. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. 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. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. OConnor had spent much of the day tossing back beers at the Brewers Hill Pub & Grill in Southeast Baltimore when the manager asked him to leave. I have no idea what he wants to say, or why after four years, he's breaking his silence. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist Jessica Lussenhop from behind bars, and he claimed he never took money from Baltimore citizens. When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". "It strikes at the foundation of our entire criminal justice system.". Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. Seething frustration was spilling into the streets that afternoon in 2015. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. Wayne Jenkins fist felt like a hammer to Tim OConnors face. The longest sentence was handed down to Jenkins: 25 years. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. "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. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. 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. If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. I thought, How is he doing it? As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. 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. Contact me.". Used to tell me he won it playing poker.". He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. It was Jenkins, fresh off his heroics in West Baltimore. 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. I never aimed nothing at him . These units often operated with little supervision. But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. Jenkins, indignant, aggressively shot back at questions from OConnors attorney. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes usually casual rather than uniforms. 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. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. "It's that simple.". 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Or harm you or even kill you.". No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. I ask, slightly confused. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. 49 . 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. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". 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). Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. Some defense attorneys say their clients told them Jenkins had robbed them. ', "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.". 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. He was also the ringleader of a criminal enterprise of police officers who were robbing people and dealing drugs. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. But, he added, I think that if I am held responsible for my actions, then the same should be with the officers for their wrongdoing.. 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. He said they were confiscating the cash and 20 pounds of marijuana. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. 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. "It was obvious to me, when I'm taking millions of dollars worth of drugs from the Baltimore Police Department and selling them, that this is not a normal police department.". . 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. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. While it may seem incongruous that an officer would be hailed as a hero while racking up complaints, in the Baltimore Police Department it was not. His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. Wayne Jenkins. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. He says he couldn't risk it as a father with a young family. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. The idea that the Gun Trace Task Force went rogue simply because their sergeant was uniquely evil ignores all the systemic ways in which he was encouraged to operate the way he did, and the larger policing culture that supported him (it should also be noted that several of the squad's members started stealing money long before they joined the GTTF). "He's like, 'I'm not telling you to do anything, I'm just saying it sure would be nice if we had $10,000 apiece to go up to Atlantic City,'" Jenkins recalls. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. Others were raised by defense attorneys and their clients, who said an overzealous Jenkins skirted legal standards in making arrests. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. Then they could enter the house and take the money, only later calling county officers to say they were executing the warrant. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. 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. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. The show briefly depicts Wayne Jenkins' wife in episode 5, and we are told that Wayne takes time off for the impending birth of his child. 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. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. According to testimony from Ward and Hendrix, Jenkins played an outsized role in the schemes. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. 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. "Now we're going to burn it down. Wayne Jenkins from Baltimore was sentenced to 25-years-in-prison. 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. 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. 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. You didnt catch me in nothing.. The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. 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. Here is everything you need to know about the real Jenkins and where he is now. 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. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. An outsized role in several high-profile drug busts I knew the things we were doing were wrong, Taylor! 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