'The Wire' Actress Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson Shocked By Heroin Charges

This is not Pearson's first brush with the law. She was 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.

Pearson was arrested on a minor 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.
Of the dozens of names in court documents Gardner showed her when they spoke in the lockup Friday, Pearson said she recognized only one, he said. He's concerned that this is a case of "guilty by association."
"Drugs are bad. We have to get them off the street," Gardner said. "But we have to be careful to get the right folks off the street."