DMX Arrested Again -- For Buying Drugs In Miami

Friday - June 27, 2008
By: Allen Starbury

DMX cannot seem to stay out of trouble. Days after being arrested on a warrant in Miami earlier this week, the rapper is arrested again -- on Friday (June 27).

According to reports, X (real name: Earl Simmons) was busted by undercover agents in a sting where they caught him in the act of buying drugs.

TMZ reports that the rapper approached an undercover narcotics officer and asked to purchase "30 powder and 15 weed" -- street slang for cocaine and marijuana. After X handed over $45, he was arrested.

He has been jailed and his bail was set at $6,000, online jail records show.

Calls to his attorney were not returned at press time.

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