'Wire' actress held in drugs raid

An actress who appeared in the hit US TV series “The Wire” was among dozens of people arrested in an early morning drug raid.

Police in Baltimore say Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, who played a killer of the same name on the HBO series, is among about 30 people who were arrested. Police declined to say what charges she faces.

Pearson was convicted of second-degree murder as a teenager. In 2008, she was arrested on a minor drug charge when police went to her home to pick her up for refusing to co-operate as a witness in a murder trial. She was found not guilty on the charge.