Amid controversies over the years, police brass would publicly disband the units, then reconstitute them with the same personnel under a different name. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. The dealers would be sitting in a jail cell. Donny made every piece of that up.". His police department personnel file shows no punishment related to the case. Barksdale, the former deputy commissioner who crafted department strategies from 2007 to 2012, leaned heavily on plainclothes units. Why cant I be like this guy?. Hed grown up in the working class suburb, where his father worked two jobs, including at Bethlehem Steel. One of the most shocking incidents from the plea agreement is an event that Jenkins now unequivocally denies. "I have no respect for him.". They walked far enough so they couldnt be seen from the street. He had been stationed in North Carolina and would frequently make trips home to visit his family and his high school sweetheart Kristy, the . I got gangster charges, racketeering charges, things they usually give the mob, who were burying bodies in cement.". Federal prosecutors displayed the contents of a bag found in the trunk of Sgt. Stepp says Jenkins started bringing over shipments of drugs on an almost daily basis, putting them in a locked shed behind Stepp's house. Jenkins winced as the handcuffs were placed on his wrists, and US Marshals led him out of a back door of the courtroom. He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life". Prosecutors went as far as having witnesses appear before a grand jury, according to records obtained by The Sun. They didnt call for an ambulance or even write a report. Sneed hired an attorney, who obtained footage from a city surveillance camera on the corner. 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". All of the other officers would have to be inaccurate in their testimony if it is to be believed that Detective Jenkins was manufacturing information for the affidavit, she said. Near Druid Hill Park, amid the shouting, sirens and buzzing choppers overhead, he commandeered a state prison department van and helped pull injured officers inside. 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. His promotion required him to return to uniformed patrol for a time, and he was assigned to the Northeastern District. Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. I ask. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, plainclothes teams have been charged with corruption. 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. 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. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. I have no idea what he wants to say, or why after four years, he's breaking his silence. 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. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. 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. 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. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. 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. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". During his trial, on January 5, 2018, Jenkins pled guilty to one count of racketeering, two counts of robbery, one count of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation, and four counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. Because believe me, I'll stand my ground in a second.". 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. Many Baltimore residents had long distrusted the police, and more so after the death of Freddie Gray. 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. He resigned and the top spot at the Baltimore Police Department remains vacant. 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. View all articles on the Gun Trace Task Force on The Baltimore Sun. A former member of the unit, Sergeant Thomas Allers, also pleaded guilty. "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. I ask, slightly confused. "Absolutely. 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. 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. And that is what they want, German said, according to an Internal Affairs report. 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. Burley was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which he was serving until federal prosecutors uncovered the task force's corruption and freed him. Here's what the public was led to believe about the Gun Trace Task Force, before the FBI arrested almost every member of the squad: That in a city still reeling from the civil unrest that followed the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the GTTF was a bright spot in a department under a dark cloud. "He drew first blood," Stepp says of Jenkins. 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. I have to try to untangle his answers as he moves from subject to subject, sometimes so fast I can't keep up. The actions of former Baltimore police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers in the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) are explored in We Own This City. I never aimed nothing at him . "I could have spoken up.". He admitted to knowing . My thoughts return to Kenneth Bumgardner, a hard-working father who was chased by the squad when they suspected him of having marijuana. There's no telling how many other people were affected, but were too afraid to come forward. Their work is not to be confused with undercover operations, in which police officers assume a different identity and worm their way into a criminal organization. Jenkins later alleged in official paperwork that Simon had pointed a weapon at Frieman and that he ran Simon down to stop the threat. I lived modest, we wasn't enriching ourselves," he answers. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. Stepp turned everything over to the US prosecutors. Weeks later, I search these locations myself to see if I can find anything. Stepp was on home confinement for six months with an ankle monitor until this summer. Jenkins idolized his sergeant, Michael Fries, the target of the expletive. This is his senior portrait from 1998. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a news conference to tout one of Jenkins big drug busts. "So you did take money, ultimately?" Back then, Jenkins escaped scrutiny again. Jenkins must serve three years of supervised release after his custodial sentence. Five years later, Simons claims were confirmed. "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. They direct their work, approve overtime pay and provide reports to higher-ranking supervisors. Jenkins was a rising star in the department, because of his ability to regularly bring in huge seizures of drugs and guns. 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. The jury found against the officer who broke Sneeds jaw but cleared Jenkins. You will not be charged for this call. Command created the monster, she said, and allowed it to go unchecked.. 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. He took pictures of himself and Jenkins together inside the police department, where Stepp would sometimes pick up drugs. 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. At OConnors trial, Fries remarked that the others were worthless and didnt meet the standards of the organized crime unit. It was billed at the time as the largest cocaine seizure in department history, one of Jenkins many large-scale seizures. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. They tracked other dealers and broke into their houses when no one was home. Hill could not be reached by The Sun for comment. But the scope of the corruption of Jenkins and his men remains a singular stain on the force. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. Jenkins tells me he traded some sausages with other inmates in the line, bartering his way to the front. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. He names the veteran he says coached him into stealing for the first time. 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. Wayne Jenkins, who . And that's what I did.". His drill sergeant described him as having the utmost flawless character Ive seen in two decades of service. 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. Wayne Jenkins fist felt like a hammer to Tim OConnors face. No one believed Oakley. "It was a front for a criminal enterprise," Stepp said of the Gun Trace Task Force. 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. Fenton joined The Sun as a suburban reporter in 2005. It was surreal hearing his voice, talking to me. Hill told Al-Jazeera it was because then-Deputy Commissioner De Sousa got involved. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. He said he started dealing drugs at age 9, selling. 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. On the off-ramp, I find four empty dime bags scattered along a section of sidewalk with no foot traffic. "I never took a thing. The matter was referred to the police integrity unit of the Baltimore states attorneys office for investigation. 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. They testified he told them to carry BB guns to plant if they ever injured or killed an unarmed person, that he often took large quantities of drugs off of suspects without submitting them to the police evidence room. One former supervisor never responded. "I'm grateful, very grateful.". When I tell this to Stepp, he's angry. 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'. 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 . He is very remorseful.". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. All seven now sit in federal prisons scattered across the country. His wife is also depicted earlier in the series when Wayne, in his early days, attends a barbecue with his colleagues from the Baltimore Police Department and is annoyed by how they have more money than him. Yet another of Jenkins' friends said something I wasn't expecting. We'll never be the same again.". This just begun.". 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. He points to the plea agreement, in which Jenkins agreed that his cut of their drug sales came to roughly $250,000. Hes given us all hes going to give us, Glenn said. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. 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 Departments go-to assets in the fight against violent crime. In an interview from prison, he said it wasnt uncommon for the officers to take contraband and submit it to evidence control without arresting someone. He said they were confiscating the cash and 20 pounds of marijuana. Outside on the sidewalk, he saw a bunch of cops and yelled an expletive at one he knew who happened to be Jenkins supervisor. But he added, All disciplinary decisions were put through the proper consideration by command staff and BPD legal department. 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. "I've tarnished the badge," he said through tears. 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. Though Simon says he reported the incident to the police departments Internal Affairs office, he ultimately stopped cooperating on advice from his defense lawyer. De Sousa, who is now serving a federal sentence for tax evasion, said through his attorney that he does not remember the Jenkins case. 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. In the bedroom, Jenkins says he and a veteran supervisor found a suitcase filled with tens of thousands of dollars in cash. He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds. Nobody said yes or no, instead expressing ambivalence. I deserve to go to jail.". 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. Jenkins and Fries would later say in sworn depositions that Sneed had been yelling expletives about police and throwing glass bottles at them. He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. It was the perfect crime. Judge Blake ultimately decided to sentence him to 25 years, saying she was taking into consideration the fact that he pleaded guilty and co-operated to some extent with the prosecutors. Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. He also acknowledged stealing the man's $4,000 (2,956) watch, which he gave to Stepp to sell. 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. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. 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. We knew he wasn't the straight-and-narrow cop that all cops are supposed to be," he said. 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. We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. Today, he's a free man, living without restrictions with his spouse and young daughter in the eastern part of Baltimore County. "Seen it done, honest to god, 500 times.". I wasnt privy. In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. Wayne Jenkins posed as a . 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). Having taken money before with previous squads, he expected the officers might skim some and submit the rest as cover. The man, Demetric Simon, 31, said he did have drugs on him and knew someone was following. For the first three years of his sentence, Jenkins was doing time at the federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina . He woke up on a frigid city street with his jaw shattered, and couldn't eat solid food for months. Contact Justin Fenton at jfenton@baltsun.com. They'd known one another's families as children. But it's the big man upstairs," he says. "I got 25 years. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. "Especially because we're short on time, is there anything that you kind of want to just say right off the bat?" Despite Jenkins bravado, the jury found in favor of OConnor and awarded $75,000. Detective Marcus Taylor on Thursday was sentenced to 18 years in prison on racketeering charges, including robbery and overtime fraud. 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. More than 50 people including current and former police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and victims were interviewed. They stole drugs and cash, sold seized narcotics and guns back on the street, planted evidence on people, even committed home invasions. Once it left my shop they had reduced the punishment.. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. But I did call them, and the Baltimore Police Department, to see if anyone would respond to this laundry list of allegations. 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. I was a hero," Jenkins says of his activity during the unrest. "It's still hard though, because I get a lot of pain in my mouth at night. They had the autonomy to catch and release suspects and develop informants. 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. Across the country, these plainclothes squads have often been where scandals are born. He and six members of that unit now sit in federal prison for crimes including conspiracy, racketeering and robbery, all committed under the guise of legitimate police work. "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 crime - just get him.". 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. None of the cases led to any police department discipline for Jenkins, his personnel records show. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. 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. In court, Ward apologised to the victims, to his family and to the Baltimore Police Department, as well as to his co-defendants. "I'm finally trying to get my life back on track," he told me. 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