Published: Friday - August 15, 2008
Words by Allen Starbury
DMX's booking photo (Photo: TMZ)
DMX was arrested Thursday afternoon (August 14) in Miami after a judge issued a warrant for his arrest earlier this week for failing to appear.
According to reports, the rapper (real name: Earl Simmons) was picked up by Miami PD outside a Wal-Mart, and hauled him down the station.
DMX's lawyer, Charles Kozelka, said that the rapper had checked himself into a Miami hospital the day he failed to show in Phoenix and was planning on entering a rehab facility afterward, reports the Associated Press.
Those plans didn't pan out, however, due to the warrant, the Kozelka explained, saying 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 (August 12) when the rapper failed to appear for a pretrial conference on four counts of possessing drug paraphernalia and one count of possession of marijuana.
It is one of many cases X faces in the state of Arizona.
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