DMX arrested after not showing at hearing

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DMX arrested after not showing at hearing

Story Published: Aug 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM EST

Story Updated: Aug 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM EST

PHOENIX (AP) - A lawyer for DMX says the rapper has been
arrested in Miami on a warrant for failing to attend a Phoenix
court hearing.

Lawyer Charles Kozelka says DMX, whose real name is Earl
Simmons, checked into a Miami hospital the day he was to appear in
Phoenix and was planning on entering a rehab facility afterward.

Kozelka says the warrant stopped those plans, and that he had
been trying to arrange for DMX to turn himself in at the airport.

A Phoenix judge issued the warrant for DMX on Tuesday after he
didn't appear for a pretrial conference on four counts of
possessing drug paraphernalia and one count of possession of
marijuana.

The case is one of several Simmons is facing in Phoenix,
including several animal cruelty and drug possession counts.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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