A Baltimore County bail bondsman testified Thursday that he partnered for years with the supervisor of the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force to resell drugs the officer had taken off the street.
Donald C. Stepp, 51, said Sgt. Wayne Jenkins made near-nightly trips to his waterfront home in Baltimore County to drop off drugs — including once in the middle of the night during the rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray.
Stepp said Jenkins pulled into his garage and removed two large trash bags full of prescription drugs that Jenkins said came from looted pharmacies.
Stepp was one of the latest in a string of more than two dozen witnesses testifying in the federal racketeering trial of two gun task force officers, Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor. Six officers, including Jenkins, have pleaded guilty in the case, and four of them are testifying for the government.
Stepp said Jenkins brought him into police headquarters, placed orders with him for equipment not authorized by the department, and brought him along on raids where the officers robbed people of thousands of dollars and drugs. Stepp had hundreds of images on his cell phone to back many of his accounts.
Federal authorities have said 27 pharmacies — about a third of the city’s pharmacies — and two methadone clinics were looted on the day rioting broke out.
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Imagine a group of people so disgusting they have to make laws preventing you from hating them
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