What is that saying about truth being stranger than fiction? An actress who played a killer for a Baltimore drug gang in the HBO series “The Wire” pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to distribute heroin. She was caught on a wiretap in a joint federal-state investigation of a suspected drug gang, The Associated Press reported.Felicia Pearson, 31, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, a day before her trial was scheduled to begin. Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill accepted the plea, suspending a seven-year sentence with credit for time served and ordering three years of supervised probation with provisions for out-of-state travel for work. The plea allows Ms. Pearson, known as Snoop, to continue her acting career, her lawyer Benjamin C. Sutley, said outside the courthouse in Baltimore.
“The Wire,” which ran on television from 2002 to 2008, focused on the city’s struggle with poverty, drugs and violence. Ms. Pearson’s character (also nicknamed Snoop) kills several people for the fictitious Stanfield drug gang. Ms. Pearson was previously convicted of second-degree murder in a slaying committed when she was 14. She served five years of an eight-year sentence and was released in 2000. She was arrested on a drug charge in 2008 when police went to her home to pick her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial. She was found not guilty.
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