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While the The Wire features a number of important drug organizations (see the list above), here are several figures who are not part of the those various groups.
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Other dealers
Michael "White Mike" McArdle
Played by: Brook Yeaton
A mid-level white dealer from Southeast Baltimore who is longtime friends with Ziggy Sobotka, and has contacts with The Greeks.
- Benevolent Boss: By drug dealer standards. Ziggy has twice messed up drug packages purchased from Mike, and while Mike won't give Ziggy a third chance, he otherwise shrugs it off and points out that he's not taking any revenge for Ziggy costing him money. This is contrasted with Cheese, who responds to Ziggy messing up a package by demanding immediate repayment in full, setting fire to Ziggy's car, and giving Ziggy a week to live if not repaid. This may be because Mike and Ziggy are old friends.
- Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: He's unusually well-connected, being able to immediately connect with some of the underlings within the Greeks, such as Sergei, and when Vondas gives Nick part of a payment in drugs, he tells Nick to contact Mike for it.
- No Honor Among Thieves: He is quick to sell out Sergei and tell the police what he knows when he sees how much evidence they have against him.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Notably averted. Some other white dealers, such as Frog, are shown whole heartedly embracing African-American street culture, including how they dress and talk (complete with freely abusing certain slurs), Mike just looks, acts, and dresses like a regular guy.
- Put on a Bus: Never seen again after the conclusion of the second season.
- White Gangbangers: A white drug dealer, although he eschews most of the stereotypes.
Frog
Played by: Gary "D. Reign" Senkus
A white street level dealer in Southeast Baltimore.
- No Honor Among Thieves: Casually rips off Ziggy and refuses to pay him back until Nick forces him to do so. He also attempts to be slick with Nick, thinking Nick wouldn't know any better due to Nick's lack of experience in the drug game, but Nick is having none of it.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He's only ever referred to as Frog, both in and out of universe.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Wholeheartedly embraces every gangsta stereotype out there, and attempts to look and act the part.
- Stupid Crooks: Not going to be winning any awards for intelligence or criminal guile, he embodies Herc's comments about white drug dealers being "dumb as a box of rocks".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The police took evidence of him selling heroin to Herc, but his actual fate is not known.
- White Gangbangers: A petty white criminal who desperately tries to live up to a gangsta image.
Curtis "Lex" Anderson
Played by: Norman Jackson.
A dealer who works in Bodie's independent corner on Hiltop Avenue.
- Blood Is the New Black: He gets covered in Fruit's blood after shooting Fruit at close range, he doesn't seem to care about it and makes no move to clean himself off.
- Dissonant Serenity: The way he nonchalantly greets Patrice as if he didn’t just shoot Fruit in the head while Fruit was standing right next to her is pretty disturbing, to say the least.Lex: [shoots Fruit, both Lex and Patrice get covered with Fruit's blood] ‘Sup, ‘Trice?
- Love Makes You Stupid: It's a terrible idea to kill one of the lieutenants of the most ruthless druglord of West Baltimore because you are heartbroken. Especially if you don't have the sort of underworld connections that might protect you under such circumstances; Marlo is puzzled that Lex would dare kill one of his lieutenants without the backing of a real player.
- Lured into a Trap: Little Kevin asks Randy to tell Lex that a girl wants to meet him behind a playground at night. When Lex arrives, he finds Chris and Snoop waiting to ambush him.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Kills Fruit because the guy is dating Patrice, Lex's baby mama.
- Never Found the Body: Played straight for a while. Everybody knows he's been killed, but his corpse is never found... until Lester Freamon discovers the secret of how Marlo's crew disposes of bodies.
- Number Two: Bodie's. He usually stands next to him in the corner sweeping the sidewalk.
- Small Role, Big Impact: A one episode character whose death has reprecussions for the fourth season and beyond. Lex being killed on Marlo's orders (and Little Kevin getting Randy involved), leads to the destruction of Randy's life and to the discovery of the 22 bodies in the vacant houses.
- Too Dumb to Live: Lex knows full well that Marlo is at least top dog in the streets (if not a violent sociopath), and Bodie tells him to leave Patrice and Fruit alone. He kills Fruit anyway. After that, he's lured to his death with the idea that Patrice wants to talk, despite just having shot and killed her new boyfriend.
Pooh Blanchard
The victim that D'Angelo Barksdale is on trial for murdering in "The Target". Pooh was a rival dealer who picked a fight with D'Angelo and then gave D'Angelo a beating until D drew his gun and shot Pooh.
- Asshole Victim: McNulty acts that way at least, saying nobody mourned him getting shot.
- Posthumous Character: He was killed before the start of the series.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His death kickstarts the series, as it puts D'Angelo on trial for murder, and the rest of the Barksdale organization intimidating or turning the witnesses is what makes Judge Phelan demand an in-depth investigation.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He is a Posthumous Character who is never seen, but his assault of D'Angelo and D beating the charges thanks to blatant witness tampering by the Barksdales is the kickstarter of the first season's plot, and indirectly, a number of other developments that build on the events of the first season.
Kintel Williamson
Northwest drug dealer targeted by the MCU because he's one of the most violent, high-profile targets remaining on the streets after Stringer Bell's low-profile strategy gets the Barksdale organization off the hook... until McNulty goes behind Daniels' back and gets the Unit to re-focus on B&B.
- Arc Villain: Serves as a brief Filler Villain while McNulty attempts to find a way to steer the investigation towards Stringer Bell again.
- Call-Back: Prop Joe offhandedly mentions the Major Crimes Unit getting to him as well as dogging Stringer when he first tells Marlo about them.
- The Ghost: He's mentioned several times, but doesn't appear onscreen.
- Red Baron: "Prince K".
Damien Lavelle Price
Aide to State Senator Clay Davis. He acts as a bag man in collecting cash from drug organizations.
- Blatant Burglar: Not visibly, but verbally. He is a convicted felon with a proclivity for burglary, openly discussing it with total strangers in casual conversation.
- The Bus Came Back: Appears in a bunch of episodes of Season 1, and then returns in Season 5 for Davis' trial.
- The Driver: One of the roles he performs for Davis.
- In Series Nick Name: "Day-Day".
- Malaproper: Unlike his boss, he is not a master of words.Y'all trying to criminate me here.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Arrested after making a pick-up from the Barksdale Organization, but later released without charge when Davis pressures Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell.
- Stupid Crooks: He mistakes Daniels for a fellow driver during a social event, and proceeds to openly fantasize about robbing the house.Day-Day: Damien Price, but I usually go by 'Day-Day'
Daniels: Cedric Daniels, but I mostly go by 'Lieutenant'"
