Actress from "The Wire" arrested on drug charges

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An actress who appeared on the HBO series "The Wire" was among more than 60 people arrested in an early morning drug raid in the Baltimore area, authorities said Thursday.

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, 30, who played a killer of the same name on the hit television series, is among the dozens arrested in the raids carried out by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, Baltimore police and others, police said. Federal and local officials planned to announce the prosecution of a large Baltimore drug gang at a news conference Thursday afternoon.

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