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We just can’t beleive that one person can go to jail this much!!!  DMX has a talent for getting locked up.

A day after a $5,000 reward was offered by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office for his capture, fugitive rapper DMX (born Earl Simmons) was arrested in Florida on Tuesday (December 9) on a warrant issued by a Phoenix judge after he failed to appear in court last Friday.

Attorney Bradford Cohen told MTV News that the rapper was picked up by FBI agents on Tuesday after patient-confidentiality laws prevented Miami police from confirming whether X was at a local rehab facility. “A call went out earlier this morning in regards to his location, and the regular police went out to that location, which was a recovery clinic, but because of health care laws, the clinic wouldn’t confirm whether he was there,” Cohen said. “So the cops left, and apparently the sheriff down here didn’t like that too much, so he called in the feds.”

FBI agents then apprehended DMX at the Palm Island mansion of producer Scott Storch. According to TMZ, an unnamed woman in Georgia tipped off the Arizona sheriff’s department officials to X’s whereabouts when she heard about the $5,000 reward being offered for information leading to his arrest. Cohen said he is not sure what Storch and X’s personal relationship is, or if Storch was home at the time of the arrest. The producer had a warrant out for his arrest earlier this year, when he failed to appear in court for a child-support case, and has been working on straightening out his finances after his home was foreclosed in July.

X is being held in jail until he goes before a judge in Miami on Wednesday morning. Cohen expects that the judge will not grant bond and that DMX will be extradited to Arizona within 15 days.

DMX was due in court last week for a status hearing on his upcoming trial related to charges of drug possession, identity theft and animal cruelty. When he failed to appear, the judge in the case upped his bond to $120,000 cash, and his public defender in Arizona, Charles Kozelka, said he expects the troubled rapper to remain in jail for “a while” as he awaits trial on the charges. Cohen said he thought DMX had checked into a rehab facility around December 1, but he was unsure if the MC had been in that clinic consistently since then.

Some one needs to tell their friend that going to jail this much is just not cool. 

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Keepin it Gangsta

We thought this was kind of funny here @ SITN.  Before ending his shopping trip at the jail, Mike Vick decided to go on a little shopping spree.  Records show that ol Mikey Mike had a little “to do” list before going to the slammer.

Get That New Mercedes — $99,000
Cash Checks Under Matress— $24,900
Take Care Of Baby Momma #1 — $28,000
Give “friend” some money — $16,000
Last minute impulse buys — $10,940
Pay Off PR Firm — $23,000
 

Don’t Judge Him, You know you would too. 

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I shoulda known...

After 13 years to the day of being a free man over a crime that most of us think he committed, OJ is set to spend the rest of his natural life in a 9 x 10 cell.  Yesterday, a jury of all white men and women convicted OJ Simpson of 13 counts of armed robbery and various other felonies.

Former gridiron great O.J. Simpson was found guilty Friday of all 12 counts in the armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vega, Nevada, casino hotel last year. Simpson, 61, and his co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart, 54, were charged with a dozen offenses stemming from the sports memorabilia heist. Stewart was found guilty of the same charges as Simpson.

Simpson sat quietly and showed little emotion at the defense table as courtroom clerk Sandra Jeter read the verdicts. After the verdicts were read, deputies immediately handcuffed Simpson and led him out of the courtroom.

Simpson’s lawyer, Yale Galanter, said Simpson was a target of investigators from the very beginning. The case “has taken on a life of its own because of Mr. Simpson’s involvement,” he added.

“Every cooperator, every person who had a gun, every person who had an ulterior motive, every person who signed a book deal, every person who got paid money, the police, the district attorney’s office is only interested in one thing: Mr. Simpson,” Galanter said.

OJ had to know that they been gunning for him since 1995.  And now they got him.  Let this be a lesson to those of you who think you can kill somebody and get away with it.  You don’t get away with nothing on this planet, even when you THINK you do!

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