Felicia Pearson, the actress who plays the fearsome drug dealer/enforcer known as "Snoop" on "The Wire," was reportedly arrested for prostitution in Florida last week, according to the gossip website MediaTakeOut.com. However, it appears the item was a prank/parody, and is in fact not true. At least one reporter (Howard Gensler of the Philadelphia Daily News) fell for it.
Pearson is known on "The Wire" for killing rival dealers and snitches and, along with partner Chris Portlow, hiding them in vacant ghetto houses and nailing the doors shut with a nailgun. Snoop is generally considered one of the most frightening female villains in television history, despite her hard-to-understand speech patterns, and her resemblance to a 12-year-old boy. If Howard Gensler is lucky, hopefully he won't end up nailed into a vacant somewhere in North Philly.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 16, 2007 01:05 AM