Trial Begins For Ex-Baltimore Detective Charged In BB Gun Planting Scandal

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The federal trial of a former Baltimore detective accused of supplying a BB gun that was planted at a crash scene eight years ago got underway on Tuesday.
Former Det. Robert Hankard is charged with providing a BB gun that was planted at the scene, falsifying search warrants and arrest reports, lying to a grand jury and civil rights violations.
The charges stem from an incident on March 26, 2014. Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, the leader of Baltimore’s disgraced Gun Trace Task