Seething frustration was spilling into the streets that afternoon in 2015. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. 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. What had he gotten himself into? 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. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. I just knew it was a lie, Ward recalls. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. I was a hero," Jenkins says of his activity during the unrest. 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. Prosecutors urged the judge to sentence him to the maximum 30 years, adding that the unit's corruption affected 1,700 criminal cases. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. I asked him if he thinks that another scandal is inevitable. 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. 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 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. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. However, the focus on quantity rather than quality led Jenkins and the seven other GTTF officers to start planting evidence, take money from the homes they invaded, and even resell the drugs they seized back onto the streets. Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. 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 resigned and the top spot at the Baltimore Police Department remains vacant. He tells me that the first time he ever stole money, he was just a rookie. He gave me a few reasons. Near Druid Hill Park, amid the shouting, sirens and buzzing choppers overhead, he commandeered a state prison department van and helped pull injured officers inside. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. Sneed's attorney Michael Pulver concluded, per Fenton, that the officers had "fabricated this story to hide the fact that they intentionally assaulted and falsely arrested and imprisoned Mr. Right away I learn that Jenkins is an incredibly fast talker. In We Own This City, that dynamic is highlighted through the story of Wayne Jenkins - a star police officer played by The Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal, with a pretty solid Baltimore accent . BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore leaders agreed Wednesday to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who was killed during a 2010 police chase . He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. BALTIMORE One of the main players in the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal is asking for compassionate release from prison. 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. "I could have spoken up.". Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. 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. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. 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 . He ran me over because I was getting away.. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. We knew he wasn't the straight-and-narrow cop that all cops are supposed to be," he said. . You didnt catch me in nothing.. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. For the past four years, Jessica Lussenhop has been reporting on the rise and fall of a corrupt squad of Baltimore police officers. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. 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. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. Within days, prosecutors issued a letter to police saying they were declining to charge Jenkins with a crime. But nothing more. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. 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 . 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. 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. 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. These units often operated with little supervision. In the police academy, his peers saw a leader. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. 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. 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. 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 . But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. 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. Hill could not be reached by The Sun for comment. While he may not be ready to let go of his animus towards Jenkins, Stepp's strange journey seems - at least for now - to be heading towards a happy ending. Others were raised by defense attorneys and their clients, who said an overzealous Jenkins skirted legal standards in making arrests. 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. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. Instead, they go out looking for illegal activity people exchanging drugs or displaying bulges under clothing that could be guns. Five years later, Simons claims were confirmed. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. Or harm you or even kill you.". Wayne Jenkins, who led . 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. 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. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. 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. It was a red flag. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. Read about our approach to external linking. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. Jenkins joined the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on February 20, 2003 and was promoted to Sergeant on November 20, 2013. "We're not stupid. The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. 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 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. "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.". 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. Some of his men also have acknowledged stealing well before they came together on the Gun Trace Task Force in 2016. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. 3.4M views, 20K likes, 1.4K loves, 6.8K comments, 52K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Baltimore Sun: A criminal with a badge: A Baltimore Sun investigation into the story of Baltimore Police. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. Wayne Jenkins, who led . Wayne Jenkins, Baltimore's dirtiest cop, is sentenced: It still doesn't feel like justice Jenkins was supposed to get guns off the street in Baltimore but wound up running a vicious. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. Then he said something that struck Ward as bizarre: He said he was going to take the marijuana to his home, and burn it all. In a recent interview, Simon told The Sun, I never had no BB gun. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. 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. His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. 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. It's going to happen again," he said. 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. It is simply not true., U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake denied Oakleys motion to suppress the evidence. It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. 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. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. 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. They'd known one another's families as children. 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. Investigators recommended Jenkins be demoted and suspended without pay. 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. 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 . The idea that the Gun Trace Task Force went rogue simply because their sergeant was uniquely evil ignores all the systemic ways in which he was encouraged to operate the way he did, and the larger policing culture that supported him (it should also be noted that several of the squad's members started stealing money long before they joined the GTTF). As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. 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. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. One former supervisor never responded. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. They said he prepared an arsenal of weapons and tools to begin carrying out burglaries. . Sure enough, no report was ever made. 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. While it may seem incongruous that an officer would be hailed as a hero while racking up complaints, in the Baltimore Police Department it was not. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. "I did, yes. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. 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. 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. "Life in prison with three small children. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. In the years since his arrest, he'd never given a public interview. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. He popped the trunk and carried the drugs into the garage. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. 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. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. 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. 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. 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. But Whiting is not so optimistic. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. He started to worry. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. It was difficult for me to understand and parse all of Jenkins' denials, now. 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. But in less than a year, Sergeant Jenkins was put in charge of the new plainclothes squad in West Baltimore. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. 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. Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. Jenkins would stop bringing those big drug seizures to the evidence room, and instead give them to Stepp to sell. He was scared. No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. 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. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. Critics argue Barksdale was among police leaders who fostered a warrior culture, to the citys detriment. He was serving his sentence at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Facility in South Carolina until 2020. "Nobody still knows the truth about what's going on in the city," Taylor told the judge. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. 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. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . Wayne Jenkins' police vehicle when he was arrested in 2017. Once it left my shop they had reduced the punishment.. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. I deserve to go to jail.". The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. 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. At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. A squad of veteran police officers stood accused of committing numerous robberies, as well as extortion and overtime fraud. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". 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. 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. But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. 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. The officer they talked to didnt seem like a candidate for that, the lawyers said. Blake who in 2017 would wind up presiding over the Gun Trace Task Force corruption case noted that the other officers present backed Jenkins account. Donny made every piece of that up.". I sold drugs as a dirty cop," he says. The same video led to a rare police department disciplinary case against Jenkins, who was internally charged with misconduct in 2015, according to a copy of the case file reviewed by The Sun. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. 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. "Now we're going to burn it down. Yes, I did," he says. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. I ask. Burley's vehicle struck another, killing Mr Davis. Wayne Jenkins, 37, pleaded guilty in January to robbery . The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. But thats likely not what triggered the unprovoked beating of OConnor. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. "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 tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. "It's a surreal story. 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. 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