‘Wire’ wiz: Easy on OD death guy

WRITER David Simon, award-winning chronicler of the unforgiving streets of Baltimore, is asking a Manhattan judge to show some compassion for a pal.

The creator of “The Wire” (photo near right) hopes to help his employee and collaborator Marc Johnson (far right) avoid jail time for moving the body of a Long Island dermatologist after her cocaine overdose.

A lawyer for Johnson, who pleaded guilty to acting as an accessory after the fact, is pushing for a “non-incarceratory sentence.”

In his letter to Manhattan Federal Judge Jesse Furman, Simon acknowledged the “tragedy” of Kiersten Cerveny's fatal overdose and acknowledged the loss suffered by her family and friends.

“I must nonetheless write to you both in my capacity as Mr. Johnson’s employer and creative collaborator, and also as a journalist and author who spent 15 years in Baltimore covering the drug war specifically,” he continued. “It is in both capacities that I urge you to consider leniency with regard to the defendant.”

Simon works with Johnson, 53, on the upcoming HBO show “The Deuce” and called him “an effective producer, collaborator and employee.”

Prosecutors charged Johnson met up with Cerveny, 38, at a bar around 4 a.m. on Oct. 4, 2015. Afterward, they went to confessed cocaine dealer James (Pepsi) Holder’s Chelsea apartment on W. 16th St. — where the mother of two overdosed.