Numbers, dots and dashes are ok, too. In another nod to the real man, the series featured a cop named Oscar Requer in its final season. That one, prosecutors claimed at the time, was the result of a low-level drug dealer not showing Stanfield “appropriate respect” during a dispute on the fourth floor of the Murphy towers. Press ESC to exit. He told me about the children’s book he’d written, and that he wanted to donate the proceeds.

Stories – he wanted stories. “We had a TV, everything a child my age could want,” he says. But his connection to Stanfield and his refusal to cooperate with police, plus a prior drug charge, were enough to earn him a life sentence. Let your Facebook friends know you’re on Myspace with an update. Started calling him Bird. His next parole hearing – his next shot at freedom – arrives in March of 2020. He designs cakes, and is especially proud of the one he scripted with a Colts’ horseshoe. Stanfield and his crew. He was fast. This is what I created. He was asking the text be copied and pasted and sent off, so I obliged, sending him updates on the Colts’ draft class and the new coaching staff and Andrew Luck’s shoulder. This crime-laced history has been seemingly erased by the redevelopment of the community. "Day at a time, I suppose. With this, Barnes is saying he wasn’t raised on the streets – he chose them. And I learned more and more about Antonio Barnes. Please enter the account owner's birth date here. 2. The newspaper gonna read, ‘BIRD PASSES OUT AT VERDICT,’ in big capital letters.”, He didn’t pass out that day. You didn’t really think David Simon came up with all this shit on his own? The uniforms they wore back then were royal blue – just like the Colts.

Use Facebook, Twitter or your email to sign in. You may already know people on Myspace. This man was serving a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder. He eventually went to prison but used his time there to get a bachelor’s degree and write a novel.

“We’d sell 500 bags of heroin and 300 caps of cocaine a day.”. He’d buy an ounce of marijuana and sell it off in $5 bags. He remembers March 30, 1984. When they lose, he takes plenty of grief. “Back in prison," Barnes says, "or dead.". Three decades later, from inside the walls of Coleman Medium Security Federal Penitentiary in Wildwood, Fla., inmate No. Prez’s skill with cracking codes in the Barksdale investigation, Melvin Williams (inspiration for Avon Barksdale), combination of Stringer Reed and Roland Bell, shoe store, a small market, and an adult entertainment club, Jackson took classes at Baltimore Community College, just like Stringer, already too old for the drug game that’s passed him by while he was away. Andrews died in December 2012. “He’s been incredible to him, always looking out for him,” Brian Teausant says of Barnes. The fictional Cutty makes smarter choices, opting to leave the game and open up a gym for local kids. This is his penance, his punishment. He is Barnes’ cellmate at Coleman. "Day at a time, I suppose.". In an ironic twist, Williams, now out of prison, played a church deacon in later seasons of the show. This is from a co-creater of The Wire Stanfield and Boardley Investigations Prez’s skill with cracking codes in the Barksdale investigation paralleled Burns’ investigation of a drug dealer named Melvin Williams (whom we’ll get to shortly), and his experiences as a public-school teacher are modeled on those of Burns, who became an educator after leaving the force. And over the coming weeks and months, Antonio Barnes tells me his story. The real Dennis Wise was a contract killer in 1970s Baltimore who was connected to Vernon Collins and who consistently eluded police efforts to capture and convict him. This is your profile URL. The fish-loving and loyal soldier character of Wee-Bey Brice found real-life inspiration in a man named Vernon Collins. His name and habits came from Timmirror Stanfield, a Baltimore drug kingpin in the 1980s whose 50-member gang controlled large sections of West Baltimore and committed a string of murders in their quest to maintain power. “We know he is someone our son can trust, and sometimes that’s hard to find. Just start typing to find music. He’d grown up in Baltimore, scraping up tickets and riding the city bus to games at Memorial Stadium in the 70s. Antonio Barnes was swept into the brutal Baltimore drug scene of the 1970s and 80s, rising from low-level pawn to mid-level player in a world awash in dope, cash and cold-blooded executions.

They looked like the biggest men in the world to me, he wrote. Inside those walls, he’s become a tutor to the mentally handicapped, a suicide companion and a published author. “You have a call from an inmate at a federal prison,” it says, “would you like to accept?”. He says his dream is to see the book distributed in schools and detention centers. In The Wire, Marlo Stanfield becomes a major rival of Avon Barksdale's who eventually takes over the Baltimore drug trade. “I can honestly say I don’t know what it’s like to go hungry.”.

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