Washington (AFP) - A police officer described as perhaps the most corrupt in the history of the Baltimore police department was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday. I have so many questions to ask, and I'm not sure if this will be my one and only opportunity to speak to him. 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. 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. But the suits triggered no internal punishment by the police department. He acknowledged that he could tell something was off with Jenkins around the time of the GTTF crime spree. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. He is working on a book about the Gun Trace Task Force, to be published by Random House. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. 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. Wayne Jenkins is the leader of the rogue police unit in Baltimore who was sentenced to 25 years of prison in a corruption scandal prosecutors called "breathtaking". You didnt catch me in nothing.. There's no telling how many other people were affected, but were too afraid to come forward. 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. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. Jenkins earned praise outside the department, too. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. I also point out to him that it's a fairly common practice for prosecutors to level charges that are so serious that the defendant feels they have no choice but to plead guilty. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. 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. Sgt. 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. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. On 1 March, 2017, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and six of his subordinate officers from the Gun Trace Task Force walked into the Baltimore Police Department's Internal Affairs building, believing they were there to clear up a minor complaint about a damaged vehicle. Ward and the other cop followed Jenkins into the woods. 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. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. We'll never be the same again.". I will continue to fight to prove my innocence.". But two pronounced their innocence and went to trial, which I covered for the BBC. 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Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. Former Baltimore Police Sgt. When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore.". Although she did not address the court, in a letter to Judge Catherine Blake, Jenkins' wife Kristy asked for leniency. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. "I thought it was a winner.". By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. "I have no respect for him.". During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . 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 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). "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale said. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest. Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. In January 2018, a long list of victims took the stand - many of whom had ties to the drug trade - and told harrowing stories of how they were robbed by the officers during car stops and searches of their homes. He was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. 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. This just begun.". It's going to happen again," he said. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. "I never took a thing. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. 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 suggested another option. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. 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. Wayne Jenkins, who . That's because in June 2018, Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Baltimore Police Sgt. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. And were not getting Jenkins.. "Absolutely. Credit: Baltimore Police. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. 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 . I am Agent and Representative as to Mr Jenkins. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. "Life in prison with three small children. "It's nothing I've ever imagined. 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. The second declined to comment. 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. De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. 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. 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. 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. The daughters of 86-year-old Elbert Davis also told the court about the 2010 car crash Jenkins caused while he was pursuing a man named Umar Burley. He resigned and the top spot at the Baltimore Police Department remains vacant. The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. Several of the former officers also took the stand - now wearing prison jumpsuits instead of uniforms - and detailed the tactics encouraged by their leader, Jenkins. Wayne Jenkins a former Marine? Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? 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. FOX45 looks at the 8 former officers of the Gun Trace Task ForceThe ring leader of the squad Wayne Jenkins is currently serving the longest sentence out of the members federally indicted on . "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. He ran me over because I was getting away.. I have no idea what he wants to say, or why after four years, he's breaking his silence. In the spring of 2015, the city of Baltimore was rocked by civil unrest after the in-custody death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. You're taught that - the second someone gets in trouble we meet up, and we talk face to face," he says. Inside was a stack of bills. It is simply not true., U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake denied Oakleys motion to suppress the evidence. "So you did take money, ultimately?" 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. Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. 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 . With the investigations behind him, Jenkins seemed emboldened. The ringleader, former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, admitted committing multiple armed robberies and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs. Jenkins rushed off to join them. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. "We're not stupid. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. Wayne Jenkins is a former BPD Sergeant who served as the leader of the Gun Trace Task Force. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. 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. 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. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. Jenkins and members of his squad were praised for their work getting guns off the streets in an October 2016 police department newsletter. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. Police who went rogue - Wayne Jenkins and Momodu Gondo, Jenkins, centre, before he took command of the Gun Trace Task Force, Clockwise from top left: Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, Maurice Ward, Marcus Taylor, Momodu Gondo, Equipment that two of the GTTF officers testified was going to be used for home invasions, Donald Stepp inside Baltimore Police headquarters, in a photo taken by Wayne Jenkins, Shawn Whiting, centre, at a press conference held by victims of the GTTF. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. But the Baltimore states attorneys office continued to use Jenkins. Jenkins explained that hed already tracked the man to Essex, so he thought they could stake out the home, go through the mans trash and find something to parlay into a search warrant. We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. 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. By Josiah Bates. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. It was there that the full extent of the officers' misconduct became public. Gillian Whitfield recalled Jenkins as sweet and always willing to lend a hand. His eye socket was fractured. Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. 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. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. A loyal friend. 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. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. "Later on that evening, Gondo did give me money, that means hours later, I'm talking hours later, he gave me money.". According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. Attorneys in the integrity unit had approached another officer involved in the arrest, asking him pointed questions about whether Jenkins had lied about the drugs. 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. Credit: Baltimore Police Department, Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty. 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. 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. 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. ", 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. 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. Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. A two-year federal investigation into the GTTF resulted in all eight officers, and one Philadelphia officer, getting charged with several offenses, including racketeering, in 2017. I deserve to go to jail.". The courtroom was also packed with Jenkins' family and friends. While no one should forget for an instant that Jenkins and his officers caused untold harm to Baltimore citizens, I don't find it helpful to try to write him off as a "monster". Plainclothes officers made the most arrests, they seized the most drugs and money, assets, former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told The Sun. Far from it. 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. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. 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. Have we raised the possibility of a wire? Pineau asked. 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. 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 BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. His punches came fast Jenkins was a trained boxer and OConnor soon felt the warmth of blood spilling down his cheek. It was surreal hearing his voice, talking to me. Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Five of the former officers, including Jenkins, pleaded guilty. When I tell this to Stepp, he's angry. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. 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 the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. "And I remember taking the $10,000.". You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". But nothing more. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. One former supervisor never responded. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. He also says that he only made roughly $75,000 off of the narcotic sales, as opposed to the figure put on it by Stepp. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. It didn't take long before Stepp began to suspect that Jenkins ratted him out. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. It feels a little bit like splitting hairs. 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 . Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. "You have nightmares about police officers harassing you, beating you up, just locking you up, it's just a nightmare that I have and it basically hasn't gone away yet," he said. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. From 2006 to 2009, Jenkins was the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging misconduct. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. Instead, while their cash and drugs were gone, the dealers were free men. OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. In fact, it's highly likely - if not certain - that many of the people Jenkins' put in prison himself had those tactics used on them by prosecutors. And in the midst of that investigation, another arose. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. Stepp testified that the arrangement was so lucrative, he stuck with it for years before getting arrested himself in December 2017. I mean, it had velocity, Jenkins said. "This is not the man I know," she wrote. What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. In 2018, Jessica wrote a piece which detailed the explosive trial at a Baltimore federal courthouse that revealed the unit's crimes, She then turned that story into a new seven-part podcast series called Bad Cops which you can listen to in its entirety below. Jenkins got a bronze star for his part in the 2009 recovery of 41 kilograms of cocaine $1 million worth in a mans truck. Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. The tape disputed Jenkins sworn account. Jenkins and Fries would later say in sworn depositions that Sneed had been yelling expletives about police and throwing glass bottles at them. ', "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.". The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. 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. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. 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. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. 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. Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. 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