When the phone rings, I put the call on speaker and hear a robotic, pre-recorded female voice: "You have a prepaid call. 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 . But already he was working in a plainclothes flex unit that rewarded dynamic officers and gave them freedom to roam. Not long after Stepp flipped on his former friend, Jenkins pled guilty. He served 20 months of a five year sentence in connection with the Gun Trace Task Force case, before being granted a compassionate release. 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. He claims that it was Stepp's idea to start selling drugs together, not the other way around. They urged his supervisors to get him back to work and focused, according to an internal police department investigation conducted after the indictments. He also apologised to Burley, who was not in the court, to his wife and to his father, and begged the judge for the opportunity to get out in time to be a grandfather. He thought Jenkins and Frieman might have been impersonating police. "My dad would be alive today would it not be for his actions that day. 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. That made it very tempting when, sometime around 2011, Jenkins approached Stepp and suggested they go into business together. He was convicted on multiple counts including racketeering, robbery and falsification of records. Im feeling a lot of remorse for my actions I have led through my life, Oakley said at his sentencing. Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department in 2003, first becoming a beat cop and patrolling the streets of Baltimore. Ward wasnt sure what to make of it. I mean, it had velocity, Jenkins said. 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. "Pills of heroin, bags of marijuana," he says. Justin Fenton takes listeners inside the investigation on the Roughly Speaking podcast. Have we raised the possibility of a wire? Pineau asked. After three weeks of astonishing testimony, the jury found the two remaining officers guilty. Baltimore can be a complicated and dangerous place, and the men and women the officers targeted and abused may have caused harm and abuse themselves. He ran me over because I was getting away.. Dan Horgan said his mentality was your typical Marine camaraderie, teamwork. It's propped up on top of a suitcase sitting on top of a plastic tub, and I'm holding my recorder and microphone at the ready. Yes, I did," he says. 'You say this, you say that, right?' He gave me a few reasons. I never heard back from the Baltimore Police Department. De Sousa handled the discipline, and they had worked a deal, Hill said, according to a transcript of the interview. In part due to his cooperation in the case, he received a much shorter sentence than the officers of the GTTF. . 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. Wayne Jenkins joined Baltimore's police department way back in 2003 as a beat cop patrolling the streets of Baltimore. He is serving the harshest sentence : 25 years . In a recent interview, Simon told The Sun, I never had no BB gun. Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. What had he gotten himself into? "I felt comfortable with it because all the police officers that I met, which were many during the card games, in my opinion, they owned the city," Stepp would later tell the jury at the GTTF trial. Later in 2015, he took over a new squad of plainclothes officers within the latest rebranding, the Special Enforcement Section. He started counting the money, $20,000 in all. Would they report the incident? Jenkins got a bronze star for his part in the 2009 recovery of 41 kilograms of cocaine $1 million worth in a mans truck. His fee will be donated to the victims of the Gun Trace Task Force. And Jenkins says, Did you look in the console? And he pulls the rug back and boom. "I thought it was a winner.". Prosecutors investigated and even presented evidence to a grand jury but concluded they didnt have enough evidence to obtain an indictment. Baltimore Police Sgt. A plea agreement is a document that lists specific criminal acts that the defendant is agreeing to plead guilty to. Both men have requested new trials. For the past four years, Jessica Lussenhop has been reporting on the rise and fall of a corrupt squad of Baltimore police officers. The BBC is not naming these three former supervisors, since none of them has been charged with a crime in connection with this case. Wayne was a cops cop, local hero kind of guy, said Cirello, the retired officer. Claiming to be a DEA agent, Jenkins then confiscated the drugs and money but did not arrest the dealers. When the officers circled back later, the two were still outside holding beers. Jenkins was stationed in North Carolina but often made the long trip back home to Middle River. Taxpayers footed the bill. One was that he felt he'd been railroaded into his plea agreement by the US prosecutors (the Maryland US Attorney's Office declined to comment). In our conversation, Jenkins says that that's not true - members of the squad did steal money that day, but from somewhere else in the house. There is no love lost between these two former friends. Wayne Jenkins from Baltimore was sentenced to 25-years-in-prison. But the police departments Internal Affairs office still had an open file on the case. Wayne Jenkins' police vehicle when he was arrested in 2017. He has covered the Baltimore Police Department and crime in Baltimore since 2008. Jenkins' lawyer mentioned that he has been assaulted at least once by another inmate who was targeting him for being a former police officer. Within days, prosecutors issued a letter to police saying they were declining to charge Jenkins with a crime. Jenkins doled out $5,000 to each of the two officers and instructed them not to make any big purchases. No one had called police to complain, but Jenkins and Fries told the men to go inside. In January 2018, a long list of victims took the stand - many of whom had ties to the drug trade - and told harrowing stories of how they were robbed by the officers during car stops and searches of their homes. Jenkins had to affirm under oath in front of a federal judge that what the document said was true. Jenkins is currently in prison. They drive unmarked vehicles. Burley's vehicle struck another, killing Mr Davis. It's no wonder people come out meaner than when they come in.". What was Jenkins really going to do with the drugs? He also names two former supervisors who he says he complained to about his former subordinate officers, Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam, saying they had bad reputations for stealing money. They wanted to tell me that Jenkins was a dedicated father, a good football coach. Had the officers done things by the book, the cash and drugs would be registered with evidence control. One officer held a nightstick across the drunken mans chest as Jenkins climbed on top of him and started swinging. Read about our approach to external linking. Not all the allegations against Jenkins came from lawsuits. At the time, Stepp was running his own bail bond company, Double D Bail Bonds. "He perverted the criminal justice system.". 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. According to Jenkins convicted partner in the drug dealing, the police sergeant had been stealing drugs off the street for years and profiting from their illegal sale. But then, about an hour later, the phone rings again. Wayne Jenkins eyes darted from screen to screen, taking in the surveillance images. OConnor had been sloppy drunk, they testified, and his friends said they would get him home. Hill said in the interview that De Sousa reduced the punishment to verbal counseling in effect, no punishment at all. Jenkins lied to them, saying he was a federal agent. They also didnt give chase. Jenkins names two specific locations where he says the drugs get tossed: a train bridge near the Eastern District police station, and a wooded highway off-ramp on the way to the Northern District police station. 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. What if one of the men who was robbed turned out to be a federal informant? Jenkins would stop bringing those big drug seizures to the evidence room, and instead give them to Stepp to sell. Some of his men also have acknowledged stealing well before they came together on the Gun Trace Task Force in 2016. However, the focus on quantity rather than quality led Jenkins and the seven other GTTF officers to start planting evidence, take money from the homes they invaded, and even resell the drugs they seized back onto the streets. "I'd rather be a prosecutor so I don't overkill people. At that time, I didnt think they were officers, Simon said. His eye socket was fractured. 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. He goes on and on gushing about Sergeant Jenkins, Assistant States Attorney Jenifer Layman said. Ignoring warning signs of misconduct, Baltimore Police praised and promoted Gun Trace Task Force leader. The two police officers came over because they had nothing else to do.. It showed Sneed calmly standing across the street looking on, never even raising his arms. In March, HBO announced a new miniseries by David Simon, the creator of the classic Baltimore true crime series, 'The Wire'. Wayne Jenkins was living a double life. They can let a suspect go, if they can lead to bigger fish. The GTTF did not hold a monopoly on harm, of course. No single person was in a position to make unilateral discipline decisions.. But when the officers exited the elevators on the building's second floor, they were met by an FBI SWAT team. When Jenkins was on paternity leave, commanders groused that his squads productivity dropped. 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. 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. officers Wayne Jenkins, Ryan . Jenkins, along with Detective Ben Frieman, had followed an African American man driving a nice car through Northeast Baltimore. The Parkville American Legion Post named him its Officer of the Year. They walked far enough so they couldnt be seen from the street. A few months after the OConnor incident, Jenkins was involved in another run-in where his sworn account was contradicted. 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. Its a Viking mentality: You go out into the field among the bad guys, and you bring back a bounty, Davis said. Just how long ago Jenkins began stealing isnt clear. 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. According to the Internal Affairs file, the only times Jenkins had been disciplined by the department was for twice failing to appear in court. BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore leaders agreed Wednesday to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who was killed during a 2010 police chase . Later that year, the mayor held a news conference for another of Jenkins busts. In federal prison, inmates are only allowed to talk on the phone for 15 minutes before the line is automatically cut. 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. They'd known one another's families as children. Stepp's moving on with his life - in a sense. Victims like Bumgardner and Whiting had the courage to speak out. Jenkins did not testify at the trial, but in a way, he was the star of the entire proceeding. Many plainclothes units would work out of a satellite office inside a trailer in Northwest Baltimore. They might not have been believed anyhow. Homegrown commanders took pride in being known as having knockers. In his plea deal, Jenkins admitted he planted heroin on Burley to try to justify the fatal collision. His earliest admitted theft was in 2011. They employed tactics that straddled and sometimes clearly crossed the line that divides aggressive policing and trampling on civil rights. 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. We'll never be the same again.". Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor went forward to trial and a jury found them guilty of robbery, extortion and fraud in February. 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. 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 . Jenkins entered a department steeped in zero tolerance a war on crime fueled by arrests for even minor infractions. 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 almost daily basis, including heroin, cocaine and prescription painkillers. 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. At one point, dozens of pharmacies were looted and millions of dollars worth of medication went missing. Wayne Jenkins, who led . 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. 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. And while searching the area, Jenkins claimed, he found a BB gun under a nearby car. Some of the most upsetting conversations I had were with people who felt victimised twice -- by both the officers and by the criminals. Hours later, in a quiet waterfront neighborhood 15 miles east of downtown, a drug-dealing bail bondsman was roused from his sleep. 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. 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. He says he was told that because these officers were so successful at seizing guns, there was nothing to be done. I wasnt privy. I asked Wayne Jenkins several times why he wanted to do the interview with me. We Own This City airs Mondays at 9 p.m. Jenkins was hired by the Baltimore Police Department in 2003, according to state records obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Jenkins said hed tried to be nice, but now they were going to jail. Donald Stepp was released from federal prison back in January of this year. 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. Wayne Jenkins in prison,. But when the sun came up on 1 March 2017, the city awoke to a vastly different reality. Later on, he claims, they'd throw the drugs out the window or down a sewer grate. He walked into the court wearing a maroon prison uniform. This partnership lasted for five years. Until this point, I'd only heard Jenkins on. While no one should forget for an instant that Jenkins and his officers caused untold harm to Baltimore citizens, I don't find it helpful to try to write him off as a "monster". He was serving his sentence at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Facility in South Carolina until 2020. The department valued their work too much to end this style of police work. 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. I never heard back, and he didn't seem to be responding to anyone else, either. Wayne Jenkins and former Det. To single him out as a flawed individual in an otherwise perfectly functioning system is a way to avoid change in the police department, to shirk the responsibility of actually preventing this from happening again. This call is from", A human voice breaks in: "Wayne Jenkins.". A reporter also reviewed videos of judicial proceedings stemming from the officers arrests. 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. His punches came fast Jenkins was a trained boxer and OConnor soon felt the warmth of blood spilling down his cheek. Image Credit: Baltimore Police Department. Any attempts to make the force become less of a warrior and more of a guardian was looked at terribly, he said. He's doing, as he likes to say, "rather swell". 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. 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. "I never took a thing. Become a subscriber today to support investigative reporting like this. 49 . You didnt catch me in nothing.. Jenkins gave 150 percent on the street. Wayne Jenkins. 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. The bondsman would take care of selling them, then split the profits with the police sergeant. The bottles were winged at us. All seven members were soon in handcuffs. An officer who sometimes worked with Jenkins, Keith Gladstone, pleaded guilty last month to going to the scene of Simons arrest to plant the BB gun a response, Gladstone admitted, to a phone call from a frantic Jenkins asking for the help. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "He always had large sums of money in his pocket. Just in recent weeks, two officers have been criminally charged with misconduct. You never know until you get on this side, including me, what you do to families.". It wasn't the first time I've heard that word to describe Jenkins. Over the years, I wrote to all of these former officers in prison several times, asking them to help me understand their breathtaking crimes. Plenty of times he's gone behind me and found them.. In June 2018, after pleading guilty on charges of. 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. Jenkins earned praise outside the department, too. "He's never been a true friend," Stepp says. After outlining this, Ward said, Jenkins reconsidered. However, he was also sued for misconduct before his arrest in 2017. They weren't being paid by the taxpayers to keep the city safe, and weren't operating with all the power and protections that police have. 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. Jenkins released the men and told them hed follow up with them later. These officers often operate with a great deal of independence. It was difficult for me to understand and parse all of Jenkins' denials, now. 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. Inside the police department, the Gun Trace Task Force was known for its success in capturing suspected drug dealers, their stashes and their illegal firearms. Jenkins rushed off to join them. These misconduct allegations came as Jenkins was serving in various plainclothes units well before his appointment in 2016 to head the Gun Trace Task Force, one of the departments most celebrated plainclothes squads. 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. By Justin Fenton June 12, 2019 More in the series Part 1 The rise of Wayne. I wish I would never have stopped that vehicle," he said. He was getting suspects off the street, but his cases often werent holding up in court. The departments Internal Affairs chief at the time says then-Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa intervened to prevent the punishment. It is simply not true., U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake denied Oakleys motion to suppress the evidence. The sergeant took no one else from the flex squad. 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. "I still maintain my innocence. He popped the trunk and carried the drugs into the garage. The conversation with Jenkins gets more complicated when we turn specifically to the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force. He's due to be released in 2038. But the video captured by closed-circuit TV showed the officers searching the car extensively and never appearing to make a discovery. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. 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. They said Jenkins instructed them to carry BB guns to plant on suspects to justify their actions if they made a mistake. "Right off the bat, we wasn't living lavishly. 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. It feels a little bit like splitting hairs. You guys willing to go kick in the dudes door and take the money? By the time his criminal streak was in full swing, it entailed high-stakes robberies and breaking and entering even as he was bringing in paychecks totaling over $170,000 in a year, in part because of overtime fraud. 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. The message read: "Greetings. "This was a great abuse of the public trust," said Judge Blake. Jenkins says that the veteran goaded him into taking money. 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. "I have no respect for him.". The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? The apartment complex had a camera in the parking lot. Wayne Jenkins, ex-police sergeant, leading the Gun Trace Task Force Sergeant Wayne Jenkins was a decorated leader of the corrupt plain-clothes police unit in Baltimore whose detectives robbed . I'm staring at my cell phone in the dark. But, he added, I think that if I am held responsible for my actions, then the same should be with the officers for their wrongdoing.. Four years after the Gun Trace Task Force officers were arrested, he says he sees no difference on the streets of Baltimore. 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. It was a red flag. 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. Some tried to complain, but were ignored. He reminds me that the US Attorney's office found him more credible than Jenkins. "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. He was arrested along with almost every member of the unit in March 2017. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a mans vehicle. Jenkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence in a federal prison in South Carolina, declined to speak with The Sun. Wayne Jenkins, Gun Trace Task Force officer, The woods of Powder Mill Park, where Det. "I'm so sorry to the citizens of Baltimore.". He had a criminal case to fight, and his freedom was more important. Wayne Jenkins grew up in Middle River and is a graduate of Eastern Technical High School. "Everything I tell you, I will take a polygraph," Jenkins says near the beginning of that first phone call. None of the cases led to any police department discipline for Jenkins, his personnel records show. 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. "I knew the things we were doing were wrong," he said. I ask, slightly confused. Stepp and Jenkins' history runs deep. In the police academy, his peers saw a leader. 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