BALTIMORE — A federal jury found former Baltimore Police Detective Robert Hankard guilty on corruption and conspiracy charges Monday, including allegations he conspired with others to plant a BB gun on a man in 2014 after another officer had run over them with their car.
Hankard’s conviction ends the criminal portion of the gun planting incident. A civil suit against Hankard and others involved is still pending. Hankard’s prosecution spun out of the larger federal investigation in the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.
Hankard was hired to the Baltimore Police Department in 2007 and spent the second half of his career as a detective in specialized drug investigation squads. Hankard made $107,411.97 in fiscal year 2019, his last full year of employment, on a base salary of $81,464, according to city employment records.
