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Apr 26, 2022 · Published Apr 25, 2022 at 10:05 PM EDT. By Roxy Simons. TV & Film Reporter (SEO) The actions of former Baltimore police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers in the...
- A Rising Star
- 'Knockers'
- In The Crosshairs
- Internal Affairs, and A Deal
- Cash in The Woods
Jenkins was developing a reputation within the department as a cop whose aggressive style brought results. 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. “Wayne was a ...
Officers in plainclothes units often operate in the shadows of a police department. 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. Plainclothes officers, as the description suggests, just work in street clothes — usually casual — rath...
In May 2014, three Baltimore prosecutors convened a meeting. The topic: Can we get Wayne Jenkins? As in the past, a video had surfaced that conflicted with the written account of a drug arrest by Jenkins and another officer. The two said Jenkins had found drugs in the ceiling of a man’s vehicle. But the video — captured by closed-circuit TV — showe...
But Internal Affairs was still working on the case that the State’s Attorney’s Office had decided it could not pursue: the suspicion that Jenkins might have planted drugs in a car to justify an arrest. Finally, in March 2015, Internal Affairs chief Rodney Hill informed Jenkins that he was being charged internally with misconduct, neglect of duty an...
With the investigations behind him, Jenkins seemed emboldened. Later in 2015, he took over a new squad of plainclothes officers within the latest rebranding, the Special Enforcement Section. 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. No one too...
Sep 28, 2021 · Former Baltimore Police Department Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, currently inmate number 62928-037 at a federal prison in Kentucky, is on the line. Until this point, I'd only heard Jenkins on...
Feb 20, 2024 · The Real Sgt. Wayne Jenkins From 'We Own This City' Is In Prison. TV & Movies. Where Is The Real Sgt. Wayne Jenkins From We Own This City? The de facto ringleader in the Baltimore...
Apr 25, 2022 · April 25, 2022 5:45 PM EDT. 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 biggest...
Jun 7, 2018 · BBC. Wayne Earl Jenkins tearfully told the court: "I've tarnished the badge" The leader of a rogue Baltimore police unit sobbed as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a corruption...
Apr 25, 2022 · Wayne Jenkins, Daniel Hersl, and the Gun Trace Task Force. Baltimore Police Department. Daniel Hersl (left) and Wayne Jenkins (right) On March 1, 2017, several members of Baltimore...
