One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. He. Wayne Jenkins who was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for years of robberies, drug dealing and other crimes has asked a judge to release him just four . A loyal friend. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. 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. 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. Yes, I did," he says. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. 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. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. 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. I never heard back from the Baltimore Police Department. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. 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. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. 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. 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. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. Contact Justin Fenton at [email protected]. I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. Later, Jenkins came out carrying two kilos of cocaine he tossed in Stepp's vehicle. 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. Correction 11 June 2018: This article has been amended to make clear that prosecutors pointed to how 1,700 criminal cases have been affected by the unit's corruption. 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 had the autonomy to catch and release suspects and develop informants. Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. A surveillance video suggesting Jenkins may have planted drugs in a suspects car did make its way to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore States Attorneys Office in 2014. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. I wasnt privy. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. Sergeant Wayne. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. 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. Here is everything you need to know about the real Jenkins and where he is now. 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. 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. Jenkins, indignant, aggressively shot back at questions from OConnors attorney. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. One former supervisor never responded. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Back before our interview, Jenkins' representative wanted me to speak to some of his old high school friends. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. "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. The BBC is not naming these three former supervisors, since none of them has been charged with a crime in connection with this case. Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption affected 1,700 criminal cases. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. Finally, in March 2015, Internal Affairs chief Rodney Hill informed Jenkins that he was being charged internally with misconduct, neglect of duty and failure to supervise the officer in his charge, according to a leaked copy of the case file obtained by The Sun. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. 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. 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. You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". Jenkins would stop bringing those big drug seizures to the evidence room, and instead give them to Stepp to sell. He is very remorseful.". Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. 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". When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. Stepp says Jenkins started bringing over shipments of drugs on an almost daily basis, putting them in a locked shed behind Stepp's house. He gave me a few reasons. Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. His police department personnel file shows no punishment related to the case. Both men have requested new trials. He tells me that the first time he ever stole money, he was just a rookie. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. "So you did take money, ultimately?" Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. "I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. 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. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. 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. 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. Wayne Jenkins will be played by Jon Bernthal, the same actor who portrayed "The Punisher". Oh, yeah. 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. In a 26 page letter hand written from his cell at the Federal Corrections institution in South Carolina, former Baltimore Police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins tells a judge that he saved a . Donny made every piece of that up.". 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. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". "We're not stupid. Sure enough, no report was ever made. . Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. 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 said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. I'm losing a lot of teeth, you know, they used to be nice and pretty.". Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. I did give drugs to Donny [Stepp, who testified he and Jenkins sold $1 million worth of narcotics] for the last couple of years I was police, but I didn't take people's money because then they would know you were dirty. No one believed Oakley. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. The second declined to comment. "Obviously I'm in here now, so I see both sides. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. I thought, How is he doing it? She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. On Friday, both detectives Evodio Hendrix and Maurice Ward were sentenced to seven years in prison. Inside was a stack of bills. "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. A strange back and forth with a man who used to be Jenkins' cell mate ultimately ended up with me in my closet waiting for that call. While researching the We Own This City true story, we confirmed that the real Wayne Jenkins had spent three years in the Marines before joining the Baltimore Police Department in 2003. 'You say this, you say that, right?' 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. "It was obvious to me, when I'm taking millions of dollars worth of drugs from the Baltimore Police Department and selling them, that this is not a normal police department.". The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. They also didnt give chase. Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton spent a year delving into the operations of Wayne Jenkins and his officers, both as members of the Gun Trace Task Force and before. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. We Own This City, an HBO Max miniseries out April 25, about a Baltimore Police Department (BPD) task force unit that went rogue, highlights some of the . Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . Others were raised by defense attorneys and their clients, who said an overzealous Jenkins skirted legal standards in making arrests. Yes. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. He's opening a consulting service called Stepp Right Consultants, to give guidance and insight to men and women who are about to enter the federal penal system. De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. At that time, I didnt think they were officers, Simon said. On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. "It's that simple.". 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. However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. When Jenkins was allowed to speak, he turned first to face the Davis family and apologised repeatedly. The leaked case file doesnt say why. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes usually casual rather than uniforms. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. Ward and the other cop followed Jenkins into the woods. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . 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'll never be the same again.". He states flatly that Jenkins is lying to me. 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. 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. 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. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. Prior to this, they'd been lauded as some of the best gun cops in the city - seizing dozens of illegal firearms every month, and demonstrating a "a work ethic that is beyond reproach", in the words of one supervisor. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. There is no love lost between these two former friends. It's propped up on top of a suitcase sitting on top of a plastic tub, and I'm holding my recorder and microphone at the ready. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. It was during these games that Stepp heard Jenkins boasting about the large drug stashes he often came across during his work as a plainclothes police officer. 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. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. 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 . But Internal Affairs was still working on the case that the States Attorneys Office had decided it could not pursue: the suspicion that Jenkins might have planted drugs in a car to justify an arrest. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. Jenkins lied to them, saying he was a federal agent. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life". 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. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. 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. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. 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. "It's a surreal story. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . 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. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. 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. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. You will not be charged for this call. 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. The dealers would be sitting in a jail cell. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. 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