Felicia Pearson (born May 18, 1980, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American celebrity, writer, and rapper. She’s famous for playing a character of exactly the same name, Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, on “The Wire”. Pearson said her life turned around in the age of 18 when Arnold Loney, an area drug dealer who looked out for her and sent her cash in penitentiary, was shot and killed. While in prison, she earned her GED and was launched in 2000. She got a local occupation fabricating auto fenders, but was fired after just two weeks when her company learned she had a prison record. On March 10, 2011, Pearson was detained along with 60 others for alleged substance violations. The arrest was made over the course of a morning raid at her house in Baltimore following a five-month DEA operation. Refusing bond, Judge John Addison Howard reasoned: “Well, it is possible to alter your look, I Have viewed the episodes of The Wire where you appear. You seem quite different than you do here today, and I am not referring to the jumpsuit, I am talking about your general appearance.” Following a month in jail, Pearson was offered bond of $50,000 on April 8, 2011.
“They Die by Dawn” (2012), "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" (2015), "Chi-Raq" (2015), "Good Cop Bad Cop: Blue Bloods" (2016), “Guns and Grams” (2016), “As the Freak Takes You” (2016)
TV Shows
“The Wire” (2004-2008), “Diamond Ruff” (2015), “Dermaphoria” (2015)
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On April 27, 1995 when she was 14, she got into a fight with a 15-year-old stranger named Okia "Kia" Toomer. She pulled out a gun and shot him twice, according to court records. He died two hours later on the operating table at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was tried as an adult, convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to eight years in the Correctional Institute for Women in Jessup, Maryland. She earned her G.E.D. while still in prison, and was released in 2000 after serving five years of her sentence.
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She was born prematurely on May 18, 1980 and she weighed only three pounds; she was so small that she had to be fed with an eyedropper. Her parents, now dead, were both addicts, and she was born cross-eyed. She was placed in a foster home as an infant and later adopted by her foster parents.
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Pled guilty to drug charges stemming from her arrest during a DEA raid on her house. She was sentenced to a seven year suspended jail sentence with three years supervised probation; she had spent 30 days in jail. [August 2011]
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Launching a recording career under the name Snoop From The Wire. [2007]
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