They claimed they didnt see who did it. A few months after the OConnor incident, Jenkins was involved in another run-in where his sworn account was contradicted. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. 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. They drive unmarked vehicles. One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. 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. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. 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. He is very remorseful.". HBO asked Stepp to be a consultant on the project, which he enthusiastically agreed to do. Then 34, he was already an admired leader of aggressive street squads and would go on to head the elite Gun Trace Task Force, one of the Baltimore Police Department's go-to assets in the fight against violent crime. Later on, he claims, they'd throw the drugs out the window or down a sewer grate. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. 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. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. "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. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. I'm losing a lot of teeth, you know, they used to be nice and pretty.". It's going to happen again," he said. 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. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. He gave me a few reasons. But thats likely not what triggered the unprovoked beating of OConnor. 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. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. 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. Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. The important difference, however, is that the drug dealers never swore an oath to serve and protect. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. Far from it. At trial, Jenkins and his boss denied any knowledge of who attacked OConnor. 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. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. 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. The bottles were winged at us. Wayne Jenkins' police vehicle when he was arrested in 2017. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. "I ain't have a trial because the simple fact is I knew [the court] would believe them over top of me," he told the jury. That creates a culture its not unique to Baltimore, but its pronounced here that those guys should be given a pass, Davis said. "Wayne is truly sorry for his actions. "I never took nothing from a looter, so help me god. 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. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. 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. 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. Would they report the incident? "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. 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. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. Jenkins and Fries would later say in sworn depositions that Sneed had been yelling expletives about police and throwing glass bottles at them. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? He has covered the Baltimore Police Department and crime in Baltimore since 2008. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?". "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. "an inmate in a federal prison," the robot finishes. 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". He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. Not likely, Ward thought. Wayne was a cops cop, local hero kind of guy, said Cirello, the retired officer. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. No one took anything, but Jenkins later mused about the possibilities. Jenkins earned praise outside the department, too. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. It turned out that federal agents had the unit under surveillance for months. "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". With the investigations behind him, Jenkins seemed emboldened. You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. 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. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. 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 . During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. I never aimed nothing at him . Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. 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. Historical Accuracy (Q&A): Is Sgt. They might not have been believed anyhow. I am Agent and Representative as to Mr Jenkins. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. Contact me.". De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. 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. Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. The BBC is not naming these three former supervisors, since none of them has been charged with a crime in connection with this case. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. "I see some police officers harassing people, doing the same little tactics that the Gun Trace Task Force was doing.". Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. I never heard back from the Baltimore Police Department. From 2006 to 2009, Jenkins was the subject of at least four lawsuits alleging misconduct. 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. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. "I have no respect for him.". I continued working on this story for as long as I did out of some hope that the more the public learned about the corruption in the police department, the better chance there might be of some kind of true, systemic reform. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. Arrest him, too, Jenkins yelled at the responding officers. "I still maintain my innocence. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. Ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins apologized in the courtroom for the crimes he committed at the same time as he was head of an elite squad referred to as the Gun Trace Task . His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. He told the other officers to leave their cell phones and police vests in the car. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" On "Salon Talks" Bernthal reveals he spoke to the real Sgt. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. So he gave up and entered a guilty plea. 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. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. The jury was shown axes, machetes and pry bars, as well as black masks that were found in Jenkins' van after his arrest. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". 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. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . 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. "The largest share of the blame, the largest share of those crimes belongs to him," US attorney Leo Wise told the court. This is his senior portrait from 1998. By Josiah Bates. 2023 BBC. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. 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. "And I remember taking the $10,000.". What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. 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. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. I'm standing in my pandemic "radio studio" - aka the closet in my apartment - surrounded by hangers holding button-up shirts and dresses. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. 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. He couldn't get anyone to believe him at the time, and to this day, he fears law enforcement. 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. Taxpayers footed the bill. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. 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 . 2023 BBC. I ask. Until this point, I'd only heard Jenkins on. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. But Whiting is not so optimistic. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. 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. Please sign up today and help make a difference. It's going to take an almost unimaginable kind of effort to dig out the roots of corruption in the department, and it's much easier to just lock up the cops who get caught, and carry on with business as usual. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. A squad of veteran police officers stood accused of committing numerous robberies, as well as extortion and overtime fraud. His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. "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 two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. Donny made every piece of that up.". But when I tell him that I've interviewed Wayne Jenkins, his one-time drug partner, Stepp is displeased, to put it mildly. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" None of the cases led to any police department discipline for Jenkins, his personnel records show. This kind of mindset assumes that the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force - many of them black and poor - deserved what happened to them. 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. In November 2012, Wayne Jenkins was promoted to the rank of sergeant giving him new authority and freedom. What had he gotten himself into? 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. If I could take everything back in my life, I would have been a prosecutor," he says. ", 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. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. "I swear, I wish I would have known before I ever put anyone in here I wish I would have known the other side," he says at one point. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. Then, in November 2017, he was given further charges of destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations, and deprivation of rights under color of law. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. 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". On the citys west side, officers were being pelted with bricks; some were hurt. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. We knew he wasn't the straight-and-narrow cop that all cops are supposed to be," he said. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. He says Stepp pressured him into it. Jenkins signed a plea agreement in 2017 that detailed seven robberies that he participated in along with other members of the unit, as well as his drug dealing partnership with Donald Stepp, the former bail bondsman and cocaine dealer who testified at trial. Sgt. Then the feds found him. Shawn Whiting, a man whose house was robbed of $16,000 and a kilo-and-a-half of heroin, testified that he knew that as a drug dealer, his word counted for much less than the officers'. 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 names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. Oh, yeah. 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. 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 . Then they could enter the house and take the money, only later calling county officers to say they were executing the warrant. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. 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