His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. And Jenkins says, Did you look in the console? And he pulls the rug back and boom. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. He has covered the Baltimore Police Department and crime in Baltimore since 2008. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". Please sign up today and help make a difference. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". 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. In part due to his cooperation in the case, he received a much shorter sentence than the officers of the GTTF. 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. Wayne was a cops cop, local hero kind of guy, said Cirello, the retired officer. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. It was there that the full extent of the officers' misconduct became public. Hours later, in a quiet waterfront neighborhood 15 miles east of downtown, a drug-dealing bail bondsman was roused from his sleep. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. When I point out he already pleaded guilty to all these incidents, Jenkins tells me he only signed the agreement because he feared that if he went forward to trial, he could've wound up behind bars for life. Of all seven men, the last person I thought would ever agree to an interview was Jenkins, the fallen "golden boy" of the Baltimore Police Department. 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 never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. The matter was referred to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore states attorneys office for investigation. 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. 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 started to worry. I think about Shawn Whiting, a former heroin dealer who went to prison for years after the officers robbed him. 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 Departments go-to assets in the fight against violent crime. Wayne Jenkins is a former BPD Sergeant who served as the leader of the Gun Trace Task Force. 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. 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. Jenkins lied to them, saying he was a federal agent. Jenkins got a bronze star for his part in the 2009 recovery of 41 kilograms of cocaine $1 million worth in a mans truck. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. "It's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest. 49 . Sure enough, no report was ever made. The BBC is not naming these three former supervisors, since none of them has been charged with a crime in connection with this case. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. He says Stepp pressured him into it. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. They had the autonomy to catch and release suspects and develop informants. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. I have no idea what he wants to say, or why after four years, he's breaking his silence. 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. He says he couldn't risk it as a father with a young family. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. Seething frustration was spilling into the streets that afternoon in 2015. "I could have spoken up.". The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. Back before our interview, Jenkins' representative wanted me to speak to some of his old high school friends. But the scope and breadth of these allegations were staggering. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. 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. The drop-offs included marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, all of which Stepp did his best to sell. "I'm in prison for 25 years, there's no reason to lie.". But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. 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. You will not be charged for this call. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. They'd known one another's families as children. 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". They weren't being paid by the taxpayers to keep the city safe, and weren't operating with all the power and protections that police have. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. Wayne Jenkins, ex-police sergeant, leading the Gun Trace Task Force Sergeant Wayne Jenkins was a decorated leader of the corrupt plain-clothes police unit in Baltimore whose detectives robbed . Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. There is no love lost between these two former friends. "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. "I still maintain my innocence. Would they report the incident? 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. Hill could not be reached by The Sun for comment. But they needed more information. He said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. Baltimore Police Sgt. 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 is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . 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. Far from it. Used to tell me he won it playing poker.". But most people who worked with him police and prosecutors asserted to The Sun they had no idea he and his officers were involved in criminal behavior. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. Then the feds found him. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. 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. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. 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. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . 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. Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". 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. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. He was also the ringleader of a criminal enterprise of police officers who were robbing people and dealing drugs. They told me they were disturbed that he was being portrayed as a "monster". A lot of what he told me was much more systematic. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. Arrest him, too, Jenkins yelled at the responding officers. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. In November 2012, Wayne Jenkins was promoted to the rank of sergeant giving him new authority and freedom. 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". The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. Baltimore can be a complicated and dangerous place, and the men and women the officers targeted and abused may have caused harm and abuse themselves. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. One former supervisor never responded. 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 wasnt privy. Gillian Whitfield recalled Jenkins as sweet and always willing to lend a hand. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. It was billed at the time as the largest cocaine seizure in department history, one of Jenkins many large-scale seizures. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. 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 doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. "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.". Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. 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. For the first three years of his sentence, Jenkins was doing time at the federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina . I continued working on this story for as long as I did out of some hope that the more the public learned about the corruption in the police department, the better chance there might be of some kind of true, systemic reform. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. They can let a suspect go, if they can lead to bigger fish. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. He told me that frequently, when he or his fellow officers didn't feel like submitting the drugs they seized or doing arrest paperwork, they'd simply confiscate people's drug stashes and let them go. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. All this happened over nothing, one of the brothers, Charles Lee, recalled recently. "Now we're going to burn it down. 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. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. 'You say this, you say that, right?' It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. He counters that the units helped bring down crime, and says he made it a point to scrutinize their conduct. No one believed Oakley. Have we raised the possibility of a wire? Pineau asked. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. 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. "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. Sneed was chased and caught, and his jaw was broken in the process. 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. 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. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. They might not have been believed anyhow. Then they spilled out of the house and onto the sidewalk, struggling. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. An officer who sometimes worked with Jenkins, Keith Gladstone, pleaded guilty last month to going to the scene of Simons arrest to plant the BB gun a response, Gladstone admitted, to a phone call from a frantic Jenkins asking for the help. I am Agent and Representative as to Mr Jenkins. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. 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. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. 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. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. 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. Wayne Jenkins will be played by Jon Bernthal, the same actor who portrayed "The Punisher". But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. 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. "It's a surreal story. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. 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). If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. In an incident to which Jenkins would later plead guilty, the officers handcuffed two men. His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. "It's that simple.". They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. 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". Oh, yeah. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". His eye socket was fractured. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. 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.. 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. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. 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. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. A plea agreement is a document that lists specific criminal acts that the defendant is agreeing to plead guilty to. Burley's vehicle struck another, killing Mr Davis. In the years since his arrest, he'd never given a public interview. In my conversation with Jenkins, he spent a lot of time disputing Stepp's account of their partnership. In 2018, Jessica wrote a piece which detailed the explosive trial at a Baltimore federal courthouse that revealed the unit's crimes, She then turned that story into a new seven-part podcast series called Bad Cops which you can listen to in its entirety below. I ask, slightly confused. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. 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. Investigators recommended Jenkins be demoted and suspended without pay. He also apologised to Burley, who was not in the court, to his wife and to his father, and begged the judge for the opportunity to get out in time to be a grandfather. 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. 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. 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 a recent interview, Simon told The Sun, I never had no BB gun. ", 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. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. 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