In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. 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. 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. Then they spilled out of the house and onto the sidewalk, struggling. 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. "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. This past summer, as I was wrapping up work on "Bad Cops", a strange email appeared in my inbox. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. They also didnt give chase. 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. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. 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. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. 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. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. It's going to happen again," he said. The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. 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. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". 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. You didnt catch me in nothing.. 3.4M views, 20K likes, 1.4K loves, 6.8K comments, 52K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Baltimore Sun: A criminal with a badge: A Baltimore Sun investigation into the story of Baltimore Police. Wayne Jenkins posed as a . Hill could not be reached by The Sun for comment. 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's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. Wayne Jenkins fist felt like a hammer to Tim OConnors face. Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. Theres been plenty of times where the suspect has said, The drugs are in the car, and I go and I cant find them. They ordered us to f--- them up; we f---ed them up, one of the responding officers, Robert Cirello, now retired, said later in an interview with The Sun. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. I was a hero," Jenkins says of his activity during the unrest. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. 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. 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 is simply not true., U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake denied Oakleys motion to suppress the evidence. No one believed Oakley. 'You say this, you say that, right?' The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. Donny made every piece of that up.". In November 2012, Wayne Jenkins was promoted to the rank of sergeant giving him new authority and freedom. But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? When I tell this to Stepp, he's angry. 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". Ward and the other cop followed Jenkins into the woods. 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. Sneed was chased and caught, and his jaw was broken in the process. 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. At that time, it was within De Sousas purview as the deputy commissioner in charge of administrative matters to intervene to resolve a discipline case, according to another former deputy commissioner, Jason Johnson. Their work is not to be confused with undercover operations, in which police officers assume a different identity and worm their way into a criminal organization. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. "I'm in prison for 25 years, there's no reason to lie.". "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. 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. But there was just enough room for doubt Sneed had been off camera briefly that Jenkins could argue the video didnt show the full story. 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. He was scared. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. He is very remorseful.". When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. A loyal friend. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. It was a red flag. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". 2023 BBC. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. 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. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. "I could have spoken up.". Plainclothes officers must constantly be checked by leadership, Barksdale said, with commanders inquiring about irregularities in their work and excessive overtime pay. 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. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. 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. 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. This kind of mindset assumes that the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force - many of them black and poor - deserved what happened to them. Read about our approach to external linking. The tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. 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. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. 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. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. 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. But Whiting is not so optimistic. Some defense attorneys say their clients told them Jenkins had robbed them. HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. He says he was told that because these officers were so successful at seizing guns, there was nothing to be done. 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 . I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. 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. Far from it. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. I ask. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. To learn more about their behavior, The Sun obtained several thousand pages of court records, dozens of body camera videos and hundreds of police department emails and restricted internal files. The plaintiffs prevailed in three of them, either through a jury verdict or the citys decision to settle the case. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. But the scope and breadth of these allegations were staggering. Jenkins, meanwhile, was the best officer I had working under my command, Fries said. Why cant I be like this guy?. Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. "I'm so sorry for what you're going through. 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. 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). Wayne was a cops cop, local hero kind of guy, said Cirello, the retired officer. ET on HBO. Marcus Taylor split up $20,000 in cash they stole in 2015. Credit: Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun, serving a federal sentence for tax evasion. It was surreal hearing his voice, talking to me. At that time, I didnt think they were officers, Simon said. Now, the recommended punishment was significant: a demotion, a transfer and suspension for 15 to 20 days, including a period without pay, Hill told the television network Al-Jazeera. 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. 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. "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. That while the homicide rate was on a historic rise, this elite, eight-officer team was getting guns off the streets at an astonishing rate. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". "Life in prison with three small children. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. Yes. He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". In the years since his arrest, he'd never given a public interview. 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. 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. As the leader of the unit, he received the longest prison sentence and the federal authorities who prosecuted the squad viewed him as its most culpable member. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. I never heard back from the Baltimore Police Department. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. 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. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. 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. 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. We'll never be the same again.". At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. They claimed they didnt see who did it. Seething frustration was spilling into the streets that afternoon in 2015. "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.". "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. Jenkins, who later led the GTTF, pleaded guilty to civil rights violations for participating in the coverup and is serving 25 years in prison for crimes including robberies and selling drugs. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. Baltimore Police Sgt. 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. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. As adults, they ran into each other again at an underground card game frequented by Baltimore Police officers. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. Sgt. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . It feels a little bit like splitting hairs. 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 . Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. Some tried to complain, but were ignored. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. "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. 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. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. 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. He resigned and the top spot at the Baltimore Police Department remains vacant. Despite the lawsuits and later, video evidence from his squads body cameras Jenkins supervisors failed to scrutinize the arrests he was making. I dont know the nuances, what was said, what wasnt. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. It was nicknamed The Barn an apparent homage to the offices of a corrupt police unit on the television series The Shield. The show, modeled after a 1990s Los Angeles Police Department scandal, featured a strike team that roughed up suspects, lied about their investigations and took a cut of their drug busts. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. 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. Jenkins, indignant, aggressively shot back at questions from OConnors attorney. And that's what I did.". One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. But the suits triggered no internal punishment by the 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. 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