"I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. 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. They can let a suspect go, if they can lead to bigger fish. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. The first 15 minutes are over in a flash. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". Weeks later, I search these locations myself to see if I can find anything. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. Jenkins, meanwhile, was the best officer I had working under my command, Fries said. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. In the gloom I see the number of the bureau of prisons light up my cell phone screen. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. Still, a yearlong investigation by The Baltimore Sun found warning signs that Wayne Jenkins wasnt such a good cop. 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. "It ain't over. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. "I'm here because of greed," he said. Far from it. He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. Back before our interview, Jenkins' representative wanted me to speak to some of his old high school friends. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested along with six other officers last year. 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. The spouse of the third left a message telling me I could take what Jenkins told me and "stuff it". "This is not the man I know," she wrote. The second declined to comment. In 2010, when Deputy Commissioner Anthony Barksdale wanted a special squad to go after elusive suspects, Jenkins was picked for the group. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. 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. He says Stepp pressured him into it. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. Sneed was chased and caught, and his jaw was broken in the process. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. 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. Ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins apologised in court for the crimes he committed while heading an elite squad called the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF). Jenkins pleaded guilty in court on January 5, 2018, for numerous counts of four of these charges. Stepp says Jenkins started bringing over shipments of drugs on an almost daily basis, putting them in a locked shed behind Stepp's house. In January, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired her police commissioner and replaced him with former Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, who promised sweeping reforms to the department. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. 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. The unit began looking into a case involving Jenkins, in which he had run down a young man with his unmarked Dodge Avenger early in 2014. BALTIMORE, MD A Baltimore police sergeant has admitted to robbing citizens, selling stolen drugs and putting innocent men behind bars, among other offenses. Jenkins would stop bringing those big drug seizures to the evidence room, and instead give them to Stepp to sell. The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. Jenkins had joined the force at 23 after serving three years in the Marines, where he took up boxing. No one believed Oakley. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. You tried catching me all day, and you cant, because Im telling the truth, Jenkins told the lawyer. In September 2021, Jenkins spoke with BBC journalist. Jerry Rodriguez, a career Los Angeles police officer who was a deputy commissioner in Baltimore from 2013 to 2015, said the department was resistant to change. ET on HBO. . 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. They told me they were disturbed that he was being portrayed as a "monster". "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.". Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. What had he gotten himself into? "Immediately, we get together and you go over your story. His police department personnel file shows no punishment related to the case. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. 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 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. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. "How police act towards people ain't changed," he told me recently. 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. the dim light of the Baltimore Police Departments downtown nerve center, Sgt. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. 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. What Detective Wayne Jenkins wrote in his affidavit for the search warrant was a complete fabrication, Oakley said. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. 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. 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. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. "I thought it was a winner.". 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. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. For the first three years of his sentence, Jenkins was doing time at the federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina . De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. That the GTTF's leader, a former Marine and amateur MMA fighter named Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, was a hero who'd plunged into a violent crowd during the unrest to rescue injured officers. Jenkins said: "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. 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. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. It was in 2007 that Jenkins became a part of the GTTF, a new unit of plain-clothed officers focused on targeting suspected criminals believed to have big supplies of guns and drugs, in a bid to reduce the city's high murder rate. The bottles were winged at us. "There was cameras everywhere, so I would never have took a dollar," he tells me. In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. When Jenkins called him to a house the GTTF was investigating, Stepp took pictures of the officers going in and out. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. 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. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. "Nobody still knows the truth about what's going on in the city," Taylor told the judge. In the years since his arrest, he'd never given a public interview. This past summer, as I was wrapping up work on "Bad Cops", a strange email appeared in my inbox. 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. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. In the police academy, his peers saw a leader. I did give drugs to Donny 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. Credit: U.S. Attorney's Office. 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. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. Despite the lawsuits and later, video evidence from his squads body cameras Jenkins supervisors failed to scrutinize the arrests he was making. A few months after the OConnor incident, Jenkins was involved in another run-in where his sworn account was contradicted. This is his senior portrait from 1998. When one of the men darted into his home, Jenkins rushed in after him. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. "I could have spoken up.". 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 told me that frequently, when he or his fellow officers didn't feel like submitting the drugs they seized or doing arrest paperwork, they'd simply confiscate people's drug stashes and let them go. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. Jenkins lied to them, saying he was a federal agent. Until this point, I'd only heard Jenkins on secretly taped FBI recordings, wiretapped phone calls, body camera footage and at the hearing in June 2018 when a federal judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. Later, Jenkins did more than talk about such a theft. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. 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 . 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. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. If his arrest was stunning, the depiction of his civil rights violations, robberies and more wasnt news to everyone certainly not to people who had been in Jenkins sights, fairly or not, over the years. 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. . 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. Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. "I never took a thing. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. He and other officers had raided a car wash, recovering more than a kilogram of drugs and $4,000 from a hidden desk compartment which could be opened only using magnets within a fish tank. He idolizes this guy, said Shelley Glenn, another prosecutor. He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. 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. Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. Baltimore Police Sgt. 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 didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. Wayne Jenkins posed as a . There's no telling how many other people were affected, but were too afraid to come forward. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . ", 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. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. But Davis, Baltimores police commissioner from 2015 to 2018 and a veteran of two other departments, calls plainclothes units necessary and critical to the crime fight. They go looking for guns and drugs, he said, and often are successful. Of all seven men, the last person I thought would ever agree to an interview was Jenkins, the fallen "golden boy" of the Baltimore Police Department. I ask this friend why he didn't say anything to anyone. But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. His supplier needed to offload two garbage bags of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from people who had themselves looted pharmacies. Instead, they go out looking for illegal activity people exchanging drugs or displaying bulges under clothing that could be guns. 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. Your digital subscription helps pay for The Baltimore Sun's investigative reporting. So I kind of had a mental, like maybe a messed up moral code.". His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. 2023 BBC. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. 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. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. Another was to talk about how futile life inside the penal system is. 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. ", Paul Schiraldi/Baltimore Police Department/HBO, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. 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. Reflecting on the revelations of his misconduct, Lt. Marjorie German concluded that department leaders gave Jenkins too much leeway because they were enamored of his results. What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. He ran me over because I was getting away.. Relatives say he liked to visit his high school sweetheart, Kristy, who would become his wife. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. "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. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". 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. Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. His eye socket was fractured. "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. 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. The former ringleader of the Baltimore police Gun Trace Task Force and one of its detectives were sentenced Thursday to federal prison. I sold drugs as a dirty cop," he says. "I never had [theft complaints] because I never took money off individuals. And yet, here we are, me in my closet "studio" and him at the front of a line of 20 to 30 other inmates, all waiting for their turn on the prison phone. They are not typically tethered to specific posts, or burdened by responding to 911 calls. 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'. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes usually casual rather than uniforms. 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. The line goes dead, and I feel like I've barely gotten anywhere. 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. I ask. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. Wayne Jenkins from Baltimore was sentenced to 25-years-in-prison. During his time on the streets of Baltimore Jenkins was involved in several arrests that resulted in the injuries of the people he took into custody. The prosecutors characterised both men as having less culpability in the GTTF's schemes and that Ward in particular had provided valuable information that lead to additional charges against other officers. When the man stopped his car and started to run away, Jenkins drove after him and into someones front yard, where he struck him. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. "We said, 'You know, he's robbin' the pieces of shit of Baltimore that are the reason that me and my kids can't walk down the street and feel safe," he says. All this happened over nothing, one of the brothers, Charles Lee, recalled recently. Jenkins was given a 25-year prison sentence on June 7, 2018, which he is currently in the midst of serving at a federal prison in Kentucky. 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. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? His punches came fast Jenkins was a trained boxer and OConnor soon felt the warmth of blood spilling down his cheek. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. In Baltimores recent history, the police department has consistently relied on such units, even though the conduct of many of their officers would draw criticism from city residents. 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. It was still daylight, and Jenkins opened a black and red duffel bag. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. Contact me.". "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" Some tried to complain, but were ignored. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". 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. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. He told the other officers to leave their cell phones and police vests in the car. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. Wayne Jenkins, who led . They had the autonomy to catch and release suspects and develop informants. What if a complaint was made? At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. "What chance do we have when you have people like Jenkins and his co-defendants fabricating evidence?". He was like King Kong, the officer, who still works for the police department, recalled. "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". 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