The dealers would be sitting in a jail cell. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. 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. 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. 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. Wayne Jenkins posed as a . 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. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. Sgt. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. 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. I mean, it had velocity, Jenkins said. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. He ran me over because I was getting away.. "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. The second declined to comment. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. Five years later, Simons claims were confirmed. Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. OConnor, a house painter who missed weeks of work because of his injuries, sued Jenkins and put forward witnesses who backed his account: After OConnor yelled at Fries, officers had pulled him to the ground, and Jenkins walloped him. Current and former officers said he was generally regarded favorably as a cowboy type who found big cases through a frenetic pace of citizen stops, which sometimes yielded information leading the way up a chain of drug dealers. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. There is no love lost between these two former friends. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. Even though we've known for weeks that Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal), Daniel Hersl (Josh Charles), Jemell Rayam (Darrell Britt-Gibson) and the rest of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force were . Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. He tells me that the first time he ever stole money, he was just a rookie. 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". "I'm grateful, very grateful.". "This is not the man I know," she wrote. He couldn't get anyone to believe him at the time, and to this day, he fears law enforcement. "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. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. Just as she was completing her podcast series on the story, she got a very unexpected call from prison. By Josiah Bates. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. Wayne Jenkins, who led . 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. But overall, plaintiffs prevailed in at least three lawsuits accusing Jenkins of beatings or other misconduct from 2006 to 2009, resulting in $90,000 in taxpayer payouts. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". "I'm so sorry for what you're going through. 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. Weeks later, I search these locations myself to see if I can find anything. Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. In part due to his cooperation in the case, he received a much shorter sentence than the officers of the GTTF. When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. Instead, they go out looking for illegal activity people exchanging drugs or displaying bulges under clothing that could be guns. But Stepp had an ace up his sleeve - for months, he'd been documenting their crimes on his cell phone. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. Wayne Jenkins Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department/Associated Press. But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. Sneed. 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. 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. And Jenkins says, Did you look in the console? And he pulls the rug back and boom. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. My hope - maybe a naive one - was that hearing one of these men speak candidly about how he crossed over to the dark side would help the public better understand the casual, day-to-day corruption that can happen in policing. He reviewed hours of body camera footage from their arrests, watched tapes of their courtroom appearances, reviewed several thousand pages of documents, including internal police department files, and interviewed dozens of people including two of the convicted officers, some of the gun unit's victims, other current and former Baltimore police officers and commanders, defense attorneys and prosecutors. He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. Becoming Wayne Jenkins: Jon Bernthal's Deep Dive Into We Own This City 's Corrupt Cop For the HBO miniseries, the actor went on nightly ride-alongs and spoke at length with the imprisoned. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. In my conversation with Jenkins, he spent a lot of time disputing Stepp's account of their partnership. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. . In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. With the investigations behind him, Jenkins seemed emboldened. The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. "It's a surreal story. Sergeant Wayne. But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. 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. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life". In November 2012, Wayne Jenkins was promoted to the rank of sergeant giving him new authority and freedom. "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. He admitted to knowing . Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. Hill told Al-Jazeera it was because then-Deputy Commissioner De Sousa got involved. But Whiting is not so optimistic. On June 7, 2018, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Wayne Jenkins, who led . Read about our approach to external linking. Many plainclothes units would work out of a satellite office inside a trailer in Northwest Baltimore. Judge Blake ultimately decided to sentence him to 25 years, saying she was taking into consideration the fact that he pleaded guilty and co-operated to some extent with the prosecutors. The three prosecutors concluded the officer admired Jenkins work even as he may have been trying to protect the sergeant. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". His punches came fast Jenkins was a trained boxer and OConnor soon felt the warmth of blood spilling down his cheek. The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. "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. Your digital subscription helps pay for The Baltimore Sun's investigative reporting. They also didnt give chase. 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. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. From 2006 to 2009, Jenkins was the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging misconduct. Wayne Jenkins and his plainclothes colleagues operated in a world where success and misconduct were not mutually exclusive and sometimes seemed to go hand in hand. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. "It ain't over. "I never took a thing. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". Far from it. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. At that time, I didnt think they were officers, Simon said. A plea agreement is a document that lists specific criminal acts that the defendant is agreeing to plead guilty to. Hours later, in a quiet waterfront neighborhood 15 miles east of downtown, a drug-dealing bail bondsman was roused from his sleep. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". 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. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. Yes, I did," he says. I hoped it could spur a more honest discussion about what it's going to take to reform or even redefine what it means to be a cop in the US. the dim light of the Baltimore Police Departments downtown nerve center, Sgt. 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. 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. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? I dont know the nuances, what was said, what wasnt. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. But he says he was also struggling with a gambling addiction and dealing large amounts of cocaine. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. 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 gave me a few reasons. Such questions over integrity have in the past prompted prosecutors to stop calling an officer as a witness, forcing the departments hand to take him off the streets. He points to the plea agreement, in which Jenkins agreed that his cut of their drug sales came to roughly $250,000. It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. 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. The leaked case file doesnt say why. "Immediately, we get together and you go over your story. Inside was a stack of bills. 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. He. His eye socket was fractured. But they needed more information. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. The BBC is not naming these three former supervisors, since none of them has been charged with a crime in connection with this case. Jenkins names two specific locations where he says the drugs get tossed: a train bridge near the Eastern District police station, and a wooded highway off-ramp on the way to the Northern District police station. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. I ask, slightly confused. 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. 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, 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 . Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. 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. 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. They testified he told them to carry BB guns to plant if they ever injured or killed an unarmed person, that he often took large quantities of drugs off of suspects without submitting them to the police evidence room. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. "Hi, ma'am," Jenkins says when I pick up. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. He started to worry. His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. 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. Both men have requested new trials. 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. But the Baltimore states attorneys office continued to use Jenkins. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. 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. 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. After he was sent to federal lock-up, I wrote Jenkins a letter once a year - along with many other journalists, book authors, producers and documentary filmmakers - requesting an interview. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? Jenkins said. 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. It is simply not true., U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake denied Oakleys motion to suppress the evidence. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. 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. He was scared. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. They told me they were disturbed that he was being portrayed as a "monster". I sold drugs as a dirty cop," he says. But when the sun came up on 1 March 2017, the city awoke to a vastly different reality. 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. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. "And I remember taking the $10,000.". 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. The drop-offs included marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, all of which Stepp did his best to sell. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. Here is everything you need to know about the real Jenkins and where he is now. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". In reality, he says, they were making arrests by any means necessary. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. "It's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. Plainclothes officers must constantly be checked by leadership, Barksdale said, with commanders inquiring about irregularities in their work and excessive overtime pay. 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. Over the course of four phone calls (courtesy of some traded bags of crisps), Jenkins paints a picture of the Baltimore Police Department as a place where indoctrination into corruption starts almost immediately. Arrest him, too, Jenkins yelled at the responding officers. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. 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. 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. What had he gotten himself into? 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. 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. 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. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. We'll never be the same again.". All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. In a recent interview, Simon told The Sun, I never had no BB gun. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. 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. He admitted to knowing . I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Simon's new project will tell a fictionalised version of the Gun Trace Task Force saga, and began filming on the streets of Baltimore over the summer. ", 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. 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. They drive unmarked vehicles. 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. 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. 49 . Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. 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. And of course, Jenkins is also hoping for a sentenced reduction of some kind. Then they could enter the house and take the money, only later calling county officers to say they were executing the warrant. 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. I have no idea what he wants to say, or why after four years, he's breaking his silence. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. As Jenkins is telling me this, he is naming names. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. Prosecutors pointed to the fact that Jenkins fabricated evidence, like producing a bogus iPhone video of his officers cracking a drug dealer's safe, when they had in fact already broken into it and stolen $200,000 in cash. We knew he wasn't the straight-and-narrow cop that all cops are supposed to be," he said. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest. In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. 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 also names two former supervisors who he says he complained to about his former subordinate officers, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam, saying they had bad reputations for stealing money. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. And in the midst of that investigation, another arose. Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. 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