Rapper DMX Busted for Abuse and Murder of Dogs, Rapper Claims He Didn’t Do It
I really, really hope DMX is not the guilty party. I’m getting VERY tired of reporting on and talking about crimes against dogs by a celebrity…
Thanks to all of you who barked in this story including Kimberley, furmom to the Douglas Sisters.
Thanks to Metromix.com for this article.
Sheriff Raids DMX’s Home, Seizes Dogs
By Associated PressPHOENIX — Sheriff’s deputies raided the home of rapper DMX on Friday, seizing several pit bulls and finding the remains of three other dogs but making no arrests.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office received a tip more than a week ago about dogs being kept in inhumane conditions at the Phoenix-area home, said Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Detectives visited the home and then called one of the rapper’s lawyers and told him that the conditions for the animals at the property needed to be improved or deputies would take action, Arpaio said. The dogs were not being fed or given water.
Authorities returned to the home Friday.
The 36-year-old musician and actor, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was not at home during the raid.
Simmons’ lawyer, Murray Richman, said Simmons hasn’t been in Arizona for at least two months and was “extremely disturbed” to hear the animals weren’t being cared for properly.
“We had a caretaker that wasn’t taking care, that’s what happened,” Richman said. “He loves dogs — he loves these animals. Those dogs are practically his family.”
Richman said he hadn’t been notified of problems at the property until he learned of the raid Friday. Sheriff’s officials said they had contacted another lawyer who works for DMX.
Arpaio said the deputies who served a search warrant at the home Friday seized 12 pit bulls tied up on the property and took them to an old jail that has been converted into an animal shelter.
Deputies found the buried dogs when they dug up the back yard. One had apparently been burned and the cause of death on the others was unknown because the bodies were decomposing.
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He’s likely guilty — or at least complicit, in that he knew of the situation and did nothing. The dogs are HIS, not the caretakers, and ultimately it is his responsibility to oversee the care provided by the caretaker. This is not DMX’s first charge of animal neglect. In 2002 he pleaded guilty in New Jersey for animal cruelty for neglecting 13 pit bulls, according to news reports. As part of his sentence he did a public service announcement against animal abuse.
He obviously didn’t learn anything the first time around, nor did he make that PSA with any real sincerity.
He sickens me. After his last charges the man should not be able to have dogs at all!!
He should get the same treatment as the dogs. If he truly loved dogs he would have checked on them well before two months anyone who loves animals would do that.