Rapper DMX back in Arizona jail after arrest

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Rapper DMX back in Arizona jail after arrest
By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press The Associated Press
Friday, November 19, 2010 9:29 PM EST\


This is a booking photograph of rapper DMX, provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, in Phoenix, after the latest arrest of the rapper. Maricopa County authorities say rapper DMX has been arrested in Phoenix for allegedly violating his probation by using drugs. DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, has been arrested twice for violating probation for 2009 felony convictions for cruelty to animals, theft and two drug counts. The 39-year-old was arrested by Maricopa County probation officers Thursday evening and is being held without bond in the county jail. (AP Photo/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)


PHOENIX (AP) — Rapper DMX was arrested in Phoenix for investigation of violating probation by using drugs, authorities said. Court documents released Friday allege the 39-year-old performer used cocaine and OxyContin, failed to submit to drug testing, and drove on a suspended license.

DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested Thursday by Maricopa County probation officers and was being held without bond in the county jail.

His attorney, Glenn Allen, said he had been working with his client and probation officials and expected the arrest.

"It is very frustrating that the probation department would time it in such a way to violate Mr. Simmons right before the holiday and just a few weeks shy of the termination date of the probation," Allen said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "Mr. Simmons has been working very hard and will overcome this setback."

Simmons was placed on probation last year after convictions for attempted aggravated assault for throwing a food tray at a jail guard, and theft for trying to using a fake name to avoid paying a $7,500 hospital bill.

He has completed probation for 2009 felony convictions for cruelty to animals and two drug counts.

Maricopa County adult probation officers went to Simmons' north Phoenix home Thursday to take him into custody. He also is accused of failing to participate in counseling programs and make required payments.

"He has been directed to treatment as well as chose his own treatment program and continues to use drugs following these opportunities," a probation officer wrote in a court document requesting that DMX be held without bond. "His ongoing drug use places him in great danger."

Simmons could face prison time because of his repeated probation violations, and officials will likely ask that his probation be revoked, said Zach Dal Pra, chief deputy of the county adult probation department.

Simmons' other legal troubles include pleading guilty in 2008 to attempted cocaine and marijuana possession in Miami, and pleading guilty in a 2004 incident in which he posed as an undercover federal agent and crashed his sport-utility vehicle through a security gate at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

DMX recorded such hits as "Get At Me Dog" and "Party Up" in the 1990s. He also appeared in films including 2000's "Romeo Must Die" and 2003's "Cradle 2 the Grave."
 
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Ive seen that shit & that reely gave me the shocking nightmares no joke!!! This ruthless nwo beurucratic goverment shit is plaguing our planet pollutin & killin everyone & everything in each path but all this had been around within the past many centuries tho ya gotta know that... The only remedy we all have yet is an asteroid!!! (No not a small little asteroid to hit a remote piece of land like what occurred way back in Tunguska, Russia; I mean a mega miles-wide asteroid just like the one that wiped out all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago at the very end of the cretaceous) & according to my crazy cooky pics on my sig; them bio-engineering demented nutts are still comin up wit new genetic-modification ideas to rescurrect all the dinosaurs & other extinct creatures DAMN!!! Just like every life form that died out due to natural selection & so forth; let these past organisms rest!!! U cant bring mammoths & dodos back either so quit dreaming u fantasizing geneticists......
 
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What the hell iz acidraptor talkin bout!? Lol...


Fucc sheriff joe tho, he has it out for dmx, fuccin racist bastard!
 
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Yea its way past due tho, he should've got outta here a long time ago from the whole dog cruelty shit 2 flying down the freeway at 100+ speeds...and what's fucced about it is that whenever he touches down in AZ, they know about it real quicc and look for dmx, there's no doubt sheriff joe don't want him here
 

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sherrif joe probably has dmx on 24 hour surveillance, its just a matter of time before he commits a crime of violates his probation.