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Lee O. Sanderlin

Trial begins for former Baltimore Police detective accused of helping to plant evidence, conducting illegal searches

Former Baltimore Police Detective Robert Hankard received a call March 26, 2014, from another officer asking him if he had a toy gun on hand.

The officer, former Det. Carmine Vignola, along with former Sgt. Keith Gladstone, was looking to frame a man another officer, Wayne Jenkins, had hit with his car, in order to help Jenkins.

Since then, Vignola and Gladstone have pleaded guilty to their roles in the incident, admitting they helped plant the BB gun. Jenkins, the disgraced leader of the rogue Gun Trace Task Force, pleaded guilty to charges unrelated to the incident and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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