The Real ones.. (The Wire related)

[Kaypain]

Just started watching The Wire again recently. I noticed some of the real people that some of the characters were based off are in the show as well.

Like Omar and Avon. Are there others in the show?

Just a little trivia hunt

 

[Towlie]

bubbles, marlo

 

[Kaypain]

bubbles, marlo

Who was the real bubbles and marlo

 

[Towlie]

Who was the real bubbles and marlo

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0306414/trivia

In the mid-1980s, Timmirror Stanfield was a major Baltimore drug trafficker. In 1986, Stanfield was 25 and ran a gang which included over fifty members; the Stanfield gang controlled South Baltimore's Westport area and West Baltimore's Murphy Homes housing project.[26] The gang committed multiple murders and drew the attention of authorities, who were able to persuade fifteen witnesses to testify; the core of the gang was convicted.[27] This real life criminal forms the basis of the character's origins while emphasizing the rise in brutality from the American heroin trade of the 1970s to the crack cocaine trade of the 1980s.