Current Events > More Baltimore PD corruption alleged at trial

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https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/959096466068393986

Specifically, that thread is detailing the testimony of this Donnie Stepp, whose role is outlined in this story:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gttf-jenkins-associate-stepp-20180109-story.html

When disgraced Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force Sgt. Wayne Jenkins pleaded guilty to racketeering and other counts earlier this month, his plea agreement contained a slew of new allegations involving an associate identified only by his initials: D.S.

In the plea, Jenkins admitted that he had stolen large amounts of cocaine, heroin and marijuana in the course of his day job taking drugs off the street, and turned to D.S to sell them back onto the streets. They split the profits, totaling as much as $500,000.

D.S. was revealed Friday afternoon to be Donald Stepp, a 51-year-old bail bondsman from Baltimore County. Stepp, arrested in December after a county drug investigation led to a raid on his waterfront home, pleaded guilty to his role aiding Jenkins and dealing drugs.

Stepps plea says the scheme took place between 2015 and 2017, and it revealed that Jenkins brought him to search locations in Baltimore City, Baltimore County and elsewhere, with Jenkins falsely telling other law enforcement agencies that Stepp was a city officer. Stepp is the third civilian defendant to plead guilty to helping the officers facilitate their crimes.

Jenkins led the city police Gun Trace Task Force, whose members are accused of robbing citizens, falsifying court paperwork, stealing and reselling drugs and committing burglaries and home invasions. Six officers have pleaded guilty to their roles.

Stepp faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum of 10 years, though he could serve less time in exchange for his cooperation. Stepps plea says proceeds of his drug sales went to officers including Detective Daniel Hersl, who is set to challenge charges against him at a trial beginning Jan. 22.

It is not clear how Stepp and Jenkins became acquainted, but both men lived in eastern Baltimore County. According to Stepps plea, Jenkins would bring drugs to Stepps home after committing robberies, or leave drugs in Stepps toolshed.

Stepps arrest was apparently the result of an unrelated investigation by Baltimore County authorities into his drug-dealing. He was indicted in December following a raid on his home in Middle River during which crack, cocaine, and heroin were recovered by police.

Baltimore County police wrote in charging documents filed last month that they received a tip in July 2017 that a Donnie Stepp who owned Double-D Bail Bonds was selling cocaine.

County officers established surveillance and saw people coming and going from Stepps home. They followed one such car and pulled over a woman. The officers looked in her car windows and saw what appeared to be materials used to smoke crack. The police said she allowed them to search her car, and she was seen trying to stuff something from her purse into her pants, police wrote in charging documents.

In an interview, the woman said she had bought the cocaine in Donnie Stepps driveway, according to the charging documents.

Police raided Stepps home just after midnight Dec. 14 and found drugs, scales, packaging materials and other items. Also located in a desk drawer: federal indictment paperwork for Jenkins and two of his co-defendant officers.

Stepp was charged with nine drug-related counts in Baltimore County District Court and released the same day on $100,000 bail.

tl;dr: cops seized illegal drugs, then effectively laundered them through a bail bondsman who sold them back onto the streets, with officers taking a cut of the proceeds.
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How suprising. @_@
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No this isnt possible. I was told the police system was perfect and questioning it makes you unamerican or something.
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lol if Dawkins sees this he is gonna start using this against the cops in his Maryland town.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

No this isnt possible. I was told the police system was perfect and questioning it makes you unamerican or something.

But they have such hard JOBS...think about how hard their JOBS are...surely they can't leave their JOBS to find better, safer ones, so they need to do this to survive such difficult JOBS.

IF WE JUST COMPLIED WITH THEIR COMMANDS AND GAVE THEM PERMISSION TO BE CORRUPT OUTWARDLY THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO IT BEHIND OUR BACKS.
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Hey now guys... these are particularly bad cops even from bad cops standards.
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Man I just have to give a clap to that bails bondsman. That's some mafia level of crime going on (getting drugs from police, selling them back on the streets, police seize the drugs and make the arrest, bails bondsman makes money off bailing out criminals and selling their drugs)
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probably just got scared
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