"It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. Inside was a stack of bills. Please sign up today and help make a difference. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. 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. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. 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. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. They had the autonomy to catch and release suspects and develop informants. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. As adults, they ran into each other again at an underground card game frequented by Baltimore Police officers. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. 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. Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. Plenty of times he's gone behind me and found them.. 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.. 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 was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. Jenkins also tells me that any time an officer's misconduct gets picked up by Internal Affairs or by an outside law enforcement agency, it was routine for the involved officers to meet up, to tailor their stories to avoid punishment. The BBC is not naming these three former supervisors, since none of them has been charged with a crime in connection with this case. "I felt comfortable with it because all the police officers that I met, which were many during the card games, in my opinion, they owned the city," Stepp would later tell the jury at the GTTF trial. But Stepp had an ace up his sleeve - for months, he'd been documenting their crimes on his cell phone. They might not have been believed anyhow. 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. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. 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 will be played by Jon Bernthal, the same actor who portrayed "The Punisher". Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. 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. "If you've got to lie about what you've seen or what you heard or what you witnessed, as long as he's dirty, he's got the drugs and he's got the guns and he did the crime - just get him.". Jenkins was a member of the Baltimore police department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a plain-clothed unit tasked with finding guns and drugs in bulk in a bid to tackle the city's high murder. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. 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. "He's a pathological liar," Stepp says. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". And in the midst of that investigation, another arose. But in less than a year, Sergeant Jenkins was put in charge of the new plainclothes squad in West Baltimore. "It's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. Would they report the incident? "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. "This is Wayne.". Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. 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. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. Here's what the public was led to believe about the Gun Trace Task Force, before the FBI arrested almost every member of the squad: That in a city still reeling from the civil unrest that followed the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the GTTF was a bright spot in a department under a dark cloud. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. It's going to happen again," he said. 49 . Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. 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. 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. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. 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. 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. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. 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. "We're not stupid. 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. "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. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. 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. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. Jenkins is currently in prison. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore.". 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. A plea agreement is a document that lists specific criminal acts that the defendant is agreeing to plead guilty to. Jenkins got a bronze star for his part in the 2009 recovery of 41 kilograms of cocaine $1 million worth in a mans truck. Wayne Jenkins, who led . He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. 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. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. He was arrested along with almost every member of the unit in March 2017. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. 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. Wayne Jenkins fist felt like a hammer to Tim OConnors face. However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. Sure enough, no report was ever made. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. The leader of a rogue Baltimore police unit sobbed as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a corruption scandal prosecutors called "breathtaking". Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. Wayne Jenkins. "I still maintain my innocence. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. His wife is also depicted earlier in the series when Wayne, in his early days, attends a barbecue with his colleagues from the Baltimore Police Department and is annoyed by how they have more money than him. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. 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. "Nobody still knows the truth about what's going on in the city," Taylor told the judge. He started to worry. Both men have requested new trials. A few months after the OConnor incident, Jenkins was involved in another run-in where his sworn account was contradicted. But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. 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. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. On June 7, 2018, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. We'll never be the same again.". Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty. "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 acknowledged that he could tell something was off with Jenkins around the time of the GTTF crime spree. ', "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.". Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. 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. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". Two officers said he spoke openly about doing home invasions on high-level drug dealers that he called "monsters", because of the amount of drugs and cash he hoped they'd have stashed in their houses. 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). He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. 2023 BBC. In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. He points to the plea agreement, in which Jenkins agreed that his cut of their drug sales came to roughly $250,000. In another man's house, the GTTF broke into a safe and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. 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. They also didnt give chase. 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. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. I am Agent and Representative as to Mr Jenkins. 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. ET on HBO. When his case went to 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. Later in 2015, he took over a new squad of plainclothes officers within the latest rebranding, the Special Enforcement Section. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. In December 2017, eight months after Jenkins was arrested, the FBI and Baltimore County officers broke down Stepp's door and arrested him in his kitchen. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. You didnt catch me in nothing.. But the suits triggered no internal punishment by the police department. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. It's a depressing fact that this is a viewpoint likely shared by many in Baltimore, and is a part of the reason why the GTTF got away with what they did for so long. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. "I ain't have a trial because the simple fact is I knew [the court] would believe them over top of me," he told the jury. It was there that the full extent of the officers' misconduct became public. Jenkins rushed off to join them. Jenkins would stop bringing those big drug seizures to the evidence room, and instead give them to Stepp to sell. He said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. Using wiretaps and hidden recording devices, they had accumulated a wealth of evidence showing the officers were robbing citizens, filing for hundreds of hours of overtime they never worked, stealing drugs and even selling illegal firearms back on the streets. Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. He is very remorseful.". The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. 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. In the police academy, his peers saw a leader. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. Jenkins, meanwhile, was the best officer I had working under my command, Fries said. I couldn't help thinking about the many victims of the squad that I'd met over the three years I've been working on this story. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. He admitted to knowing . The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. Burley's vehicle struck another, killing Mr Davis. And yet, here we are, me in my closet "studio" and him at the front of a line of 20 to 30 other inmates, all waiting for their turn on the prison phone. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. 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. 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. These units often operated with little supervision. But they needed more information. 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. Gillian Whitfield recalled Jenkins as sweet and always willing to lend a hand. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. In February 2017, Jenkins was charged with two counts of racketeering conspiracy; racketeering, aiding and abetting; racketeering; two counts of robbery and aiding and abetting; and two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. BALTIMORE The Baltimore City Board of Estimates paid out a $6 million settlement Wednesday to the family of a bystander who died during a police chase by the . The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. "It's that simple.". Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. The dealers would be sitting in a jail cell. Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. In the years since his arrest, he'd never given a public interview. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. 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. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. Critics argue Barksdale was among police leaders who fostered a warrior culture, to the citys detriment. The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. 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. 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. This is his senior portrait from 1998. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. 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. "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". 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. He gave me a few reasons. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. He. Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. Contact me.". Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. "I never took a thing. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. 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). "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. With the investigations behind him, Jenkins seemed emboldened. 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. They told me they were disturbed that he was being portrayed as a "monster". He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. You will not be charged for this call. 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. 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. During the altercation, a passerby named George Sneed was assaulted by officer Robert Cirello who broke his jaw, leading Sneed to sue. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. the dim light of the Baltimore Police Departments downtown nerve center, Sgt. 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. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. 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. De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. 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. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. 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. For the first three years of his sentence, Jenkins was doing time at the federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina . 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