The Wire come to life
Oct. 26th, 2007 05:36 pmIf this was fiction no one would believe it! A drug ring in Queens copied "The Wire".
Call it a case of crime imitating art imitating crime.That's what the police say happened with a drug ring in Queens whose members honed their trade and learned to evade arrest by watching the HBO series "The Wire," a gritty, realistic police procedural about a crew of drug dealers in Baltimore and the police and prosecutors who use wiretaps to try and take them off the street.[...]
"Believe it or not, these guys copy 'The Wire,' " said the sergeant, who is assigned to the Organized Crime Investigation Division. "They were constantly dumping their phones. It made our job so much harder."