Leander Sydnor is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Corey Parker Robinson. Sydnor is a young, married Baltimore Police detective and was a member of the Barksdale detail and later worked in the Major Crimes Unit.
Sydnor was assigned to the Barksdale detail from the Auto Theft Department after Lieutenant Daniels made a special request of Sydnor's commanding officer Lt. Cantrell to give him his best detective to balan...
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Leander Sydnor is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Corey Parker Robinson. Sydnor is a young, married Baltimore Police detective and was a member of the Barksdale detail and later worked in the Major Crimes Unit.
Sydnor was assigned to the Barksdale detail from the Auto Theft Department after Lieutenant Daniels made a special request of Sydnor's commanding officer Lt. Cantrell to give him his best detective to balance out taking "his worst"–the erratic Detective Pryzbylewski. In the detail he was partnered with Detective Lester Freamon and the pair dug in to the Barksdale organization's paper trail. Sydnor also performed valuable undercover work, making hand to hand buys to build evidence, alongside Detective Kima Greggs and her informant Bubbles. Bubbles helped Sydnor improve his undercover image by recommending changes like not wearing his wedding band ("you're married to the needle now") and authenticating his footwear by walking on empty vials....
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