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Rapper DMX sentenced to 90 days in jail

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Published: Feb. 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM

PHOENIX, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Rapper DMX will spend 90 days in jail and 18 months on supervised probation on Arizona firearms and other charges, a court commissioner says.

The rapper pleaded guilty to drug and cruelty to animals charges in relation to a raid on his home in Cave Creek, Ariz., last August. The raid uncovered 12 malnourished dogs, along with some weapons and drugs.

The 38-year-old rapper also entered a guilty plea to theft charges over a incident last April in which he gave a false name and social security number while being treated at a Phoenix hospital.

Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Phemonia Miller said while sentencing DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, that the rapper should consider altering his lifestyle to avoid additional legal problems in the future, The Arizona Republic reported Saturday.

"I'm not sentencing DMX today, I'm sentencing Earl Simmons. I don't know DMX. Mr. Simmons, it's time to do something different. What you have been doing is not working," Miller said at Friday's sentencing.

The Republic said Miller also ordered Simmons to complete 360 hours of community service, pay $3,600 in fines and offer restitution to the hospital in the form of $7,500.

Topics: Earl Simmons
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