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DMX the next Michael Vick? Police find drugs, weapons, and abused dogs at rapper's Arizona house

August

You can’t really blame DMX for wanting to have a getaway outside Westchester, what with two warrants out for his arrest in the county. Still, it doesn’t appear that the authorities in Phoenix are any more lenient—especially when it comes to cruelty to animals, illegal narcotics, and guns.

According to local AZ TV station KPHO, Sheriff’s deputies raided the rapper’s home last Friday after an investigation into alleged animal cruelty. Specifically, pit bulls being kept in inhumane conditions. Although the man caring for the dogs said they hadn’t been used for fighting, he did say that the dogs weren’t given adequate food, water, or shade, and he needed to spend $3,000 of his own money on vet bills. This isn’t the first time DMX has been accused of abusing his dogs; in 2002 he pled guilty to the same charges in New Jersey. And his neighbors in Bedford have told me, his dogs at his home (around the Mount Kisco/Bedford border) don’t receive much better treatment.

While digging for dog corpses in the backyard and searching the house, the police also turned up a stash of narcotics (either cocaine or methamphetamine—still TBD) and a cache of weapons. The artist formerly known as Earl Simmons wasn’t at home during the raid.

While charges have yet to be filed, this will presumably make DMX a wanted man in two states. Oh, and remember that doggy clothing line that the rapper launched last year, only to be sued this year for not being a visible enough celebrity endorsement?

Well, call me crazy, but that’s probably turned out for the best. Unless, that is, the canine couture was being marketed to starving, coked-out, Glock-wielding Staffordshire Terriers. In that case, you could find no better spokesperson.

Video of the raid

Photos of the raid

(AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

This entry was posted on Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 9:39 am by Ted Mann.
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