8/22/2008

Actress "Snoop" From The Wire Arrested

The only chick I've seen that has repped harder than Cleo from Set It Off, Snoop, from HBO's hit tv show The Wire, has been arrested . Police arrested popular actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson on minor drug charges on yesterday (August 20), after she was detained for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial.

The Baltimore Homicide division unit came to Snoops home in the Northeast section of BMore, bringing with them a "body attachment" warrant which meant that it allowed them to arrest and detain Snoop. The officers found two rolled up cigars filled with marijuana and also residue. Snoop can be held until September 16, which is when the murder trial of her friend Steven Lashley will start. Said friend is accused of stabbing three men outside a Baltimore eatery in defense of Snoop who had gotten into an arguement with one of the men inside the place. Apparently, dude tried to come on to Snoop, who is widely known for being a lesbian, but when Snoop refused and offended the guy, he began to verbally assault Snoop and that's when the maylay happened and Police had to come in to break it up.

Once the altercation inside was over, everyone went outside to get in their vehicles, but it wasn't over. The incident flared up again outside because of the proximity of their vehicles, which were all parked near Water and Commerce streets, police said. Lashley eventually pulled out a knife and stabbed the three men, fatally wounding one of the three. Snoop had informed the police that she was not involved in the stabbing. “He ain’t try to flirt with me or no -ish like that,” Pearson told investigators. “It was so tight in there...I’m like what -ish man get out of my face.”

According to The Baltimore Sun, a warrant was issued for Snoop on July 1, after she missed an April 21 trial date. She also recently avoided prosecutors' phone calls in regards to the trial. Snoop was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1996 at the age of 14, for shooting and killing Okia "Kia" Toomer during a dispute between the two females. Her life is chronicled in her recently released memoirs, titled Grace After Midnight.

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