He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". But Jenkins wanted to argue the details in his plea agreement, saying many of them weren't true. One member of the task force during Jenkins leadership, Detective John Clewell, was not charged with any crimes. I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. It was difficult for me to understand and parse all of Jenkins' denials, now. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. It took place as Jenkins and other officers were searching an apartment. The show briefly depicts Wayne Jenkins' wife in episode 5, and we are told that Wayne takes time off for the impending birth of his child. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. I deserve to go to jail.". "It shows what a committed, sophisticated, devious person can do," Mr Wise said. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. "This is a saying we state: 'Don't let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest,'" Jenkins says. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. 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. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. Would they report the incident? Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. His supervisors and others either failed to see the red flags or chose to ignore them. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. Lets get this done, but were going to do it 100 percent. Nothing was 10 percent.. Jenkins had told his squad hed heard over wiretaps that Belvedere Towers, a high-rise apartment complex in North Roland Park, was the scene of large drug deals. One afternoon, he took two officers there and they wound up stopping a drug deal in progress. Jenkins and Fries would later say in sworn depositions that Sneed had been yelling expletives about police and throwing glass bottles at them. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. 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. "I fear nothing he knows or anything. A lot of what he told me was much more systematic. One officer recalled Jenkins taunting colleagues waiting in line to submit evidence at police headquarters, bragging about how many guns he was getting off the street. The officers with him hesitated, Ward said. The GTTF was made up of eight officers, all but one of whom were indicted. 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. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. De Sousa, who later served as commissioner and is currently serving time on federal tax charges, says he doesnt remember the case. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Wayne Jenkins was on a mission to find big dealers and steal their drugs and cash. In November 2012, Wayne Jenkins was promoted to the rank of sergeant giving him new authority and freedom. Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. In fact, Fries went on to promote Jenkins in June 2006 into a high-profile plainclothes unit called the Organized Crime Division. 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. Despite the lawsuits and later, video evidence from his squads body cameras Jenkins supervisors failed to scrutinize the arrests he was making. As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. . Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? 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. Prior to this, they'd been lauded as some of the best gun cops in the city - seizing dozens of illegal firearms every month, and demonstrating a "a work ethic that is beyond reproach", in the words of one supervisor. 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. 2023 BBC. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. The bottles were winged at us. A loyal friend. "He is no more than a common criminal," Davis' daughter, Shirley Johnson, said of Jenkins. They also didnt give chase. He claims that he was told early on to lie on police reports and warrant applications in order to make their arrests sound like they were done with proper probable cause, meaning a legal reason to stop someone. 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. 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. Over the course of four phone calls (courtesy of some traded bags of crisps), Jenkins paints a picture of the Baltimore Police Department as a place where indoctrination into corruption starts almost immediately. Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? When I saw the video, Webb later told The Sun, it didnt corroborate what was in the statement of probable cause at all.. During hia time in the department, Jenkins was involved in numerous arrests . When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. Hill told Al-Jazeera it was because then-Deputy Commissioner De Sousa got involved. He is working on a book about the Gun Trace Task Force, to be published by Random House. That October evening in 2005, Jenkins had been a Baltimore police officer for just two years. The pair also stole valuables, like high-end wrist watches, in break-ins. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. He says he was told that because these officers were so successful at seizing guns, there was nothing to be done. 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. She described how the unnamed officer talked about Jenkins: Hes probably the best drug detective in the city. They said that while they had their backs turned, someone had clocked OConnor and taken off. 2023 BBC. Youve got to be willing to dig into their s--- and confront them, Barksdale 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. You didnt catch me in nothing.. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. "I have no respect for him.". Maurice Ward says he, Sgt. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . Wayne Jenkins, who . Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. He counters that the units helped bring down crime, and says he made it a point to scrutinize their conduct. Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. He ran me over because I was getting away.. And were not getting Jenkins.. In federal court, Mickey Oakley argued that the officers who arrested him including Jenkins and future Gun Trace Task Force member Daniel Hersl had lied about the circumstances leading up to the arrest and had illegally searched his home. Sure enough, no report was ever made. Wayne Jenkins posed as a . "I'm so sorry for what you're going through. For the first three years of his sentence, Jenkins was doing time at the federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina . It is simply not true., U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake denied Oakleys motion to suppress the evidence. Maurice Ward, a former detective now serving a seven-year prison term for committing crimes with Jenkins, said he and other officers jockeyed to get on his team. He has covered the Baltimore Police Department and crime in Baltimore since 2008. Then they spilled out of the house and onto the sidewalk, struggling. Jenkins, shown here with then-Commissioner Kevin Davis, was awarded a bronze star in April 2016 for his efforts to save injured officers during the unrest a year earlier. Others were raised by defense attorneys and their clients, who said an overzealous Jenkins skirted legal standards in making arrests. I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". 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. One such warning came in 2010 from a Baltimore man caught drug dealing. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is full of pictures of him on set, hamming it up with Bernthal and some of the other actors. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. But nothing more. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. OConnor, a house painter who missed weeks of work because of his injuries, sued Jenkins and put forward witnesses who backed his account: After OConnor yelled at Fries, officers had pulled him to the ground, and Jenkins walloped him. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. "I'm wrong, God knows I'm wrong," the 37-year-old said. 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. Some defense attorneys say their clients told them Jenkins had robbed them. "I did, yes. 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. 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). 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. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. The bag contained masks and other gear he used while stealing drugs and cash from people he and his team targeted. Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Oakley took the rare step of getting onto the witness stand to rebut the officers, as did an independent witness who backed his account. Marcus Taylor split up $20,000 in cash they stole in 2015. Credit: Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun, serving a federal sentence for tax evasion. 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. 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. This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. One former supervisor never responded. Your digital subscription helps pay for The Baltimore Sun's investigative reporting. All this happened over nothing, one of the brothers, Charles Lee, recalled recently. At trial, Jenkins and his boss denied any knowledge of who attacked OConnor. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. If Wayne Jenkins asked you to come work for him, you felt honored, Ward said. Critics argue Barksdale was among police leaders who fostered a warrior culture, to the citys detriment. After an FBI investigation into the unit discovered the GTTF's crimes, federal officers arrested Jenkins alongside several others in the unit. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. The matter was referred to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore states attorneys office for investigation. Correction 11 June 2018: This article has been amended to make clear that prosecutors pointed to how 1,700 criminal cases have been affected by the unit's corruption. ', "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.". Wayne Jenkins, who led . 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. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. He was serving his sentence at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Facility in South Carolina until 2020. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. Sneed. 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. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. Jenkins was a decorated cop and had a reputation for his role in several high-profile drug busts. She said she found Hersl in particular to be very credible.. But the suits triggered no internal punishment by the police department. "Immediately, we get together and you go over your story. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. The second declined to comment. Some of his men also have acknowledged stealing well before they came together on the Gun Trace Task Force in 2016. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. "I never took a thing. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. Then they could enter the house and take the money, only later calling county officers to say they were executing the warrant. Jenkins, who had been suspended during the investigation, went back to work, making no fewer than three dozen arrests over the rest of the year, most of them gun cases. He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. 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. And in the midst of that investigation, another arose. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. As backup arrived, Jenkins spotted a man named George Sneed across the street. "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. 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. He gave me a few reasons. 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. "I could have spoken up.". Jenkins admitted that he stole drugs from work and delivered them to Stepp, who would turn around and sell them. "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. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. The drop-offs included marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, all of which Stepp did his best to sell. Why cant I be like this guy?. When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. Sergeants are the eyes and ears of the command, the front-line supervisors trusted to keep close tabs on their officers. But when I tell him that I've interviewed Wayne Jenkins, his one-time drug partner, Stepp is displeased, to put it mildly. It's going to happen again," he said. "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". 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. He says something that I've never heard anyone admit out loud. Read more: Inside one of America's most corrupt police squads. 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. Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. 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. Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. His eye socket was fractured. "I'm here because of greed," he said. 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". He said together, they'd sold about $1m worth of narcotics. The longest sentence was handed down to Jenkins: 25 years. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. 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. I'm losing a lot of teeth, you know, they used to be nice and pretty.". The outfit change is designed to allow them to blend in. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. Once it left my shop they had reduced the punishment.. In the annals of the Baltimore Police Department, Wayne Jenkins name was not being associated with wrongdoing. Jenkins, indignant, aggressively shot back at questions from OConnors attorney. Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department. 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. 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. They might not have been believed anyhow. Jenkins was a member of the Baltimore police department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a plain-clothed unit tasked with finding guns and drugs in bulk in a bid to tackle the city's high murder. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. 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. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. I've been reporting on Jenkins, and the elite Gun Trace Task Force squad he once led, for nearly four years. 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. No one believed Oakley. A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty. "He's a pathological liar," Stepp says. 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