Hundreds of local and federal police officers who fanned out across Baltimore at dawn yesterday, hauling suspects out of homes and off the streets, announced at days’ end they had shut down one of the city’s major sources of illicit drugs and violence.
In all, they charged 63 suspects with federal and state drug conspiracy charges — among them actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, whose arrest on heroin-related and aiding and abetting charges echoed the street lifestyle she portrayed as a character in HBO’s series “The Wire” and sought to overcome in her personal life.
Full story: More than 60 people, including ‘Snoop’ of ‘The Wire,’ arrested in drug raids