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Rapper-Actor DMX Faces Car Theft Charges



NEW YORK - Prosecutors filed drug and weapons charges Friday against rapper DMX, a day after he was arrested for allegedly impersonating a federal agent and harassing another man in an airport parking lot.

DMX, 33, allegedly crashed his sport-utility vehicle, which prosecutors said was equipped with lights and sirens, through a parking lot gate at Kennedy Airport after telling the attendant to let him leave because he was a government agent.


The complaint also said that the rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, ordered a driver at an adjacent parking lot to get out of his vehicle. When the man refused, Simmons allegedly identified himself as an FBI (news - web sites) agent, grabbed the driver's seat belt buckle, and tried to pull him from the vehicle.


Simmons, 33, and a friend, Jackie Hudgins, 41, were arrested shortly afterward, said prosecutor Richard Brown.


Police found a billy club and rocks of crack cocaine in the vehicle, Brown said.


According to court documents, Simmons claimed he had been cut off by the other car. Hudgins said he had tried to calm Simmons down, and that if he had paid the $9 parking fee the incident would not have happened.


Hudgins said he had given Simmons the $9 to pay the fee, court documents said. Prosecutors said that when Simmons was taken into custody he had hundreds of dollars of cash on him.


Both men were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and controlled substance. Simmons is also charged with criminal mischief, impersonation, menacing, driving under the influence and other offenses. He was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child because the driver's 13-year-old daughter was in the car at the time.


The men, who remained jailed Friday, face up to seven years in prison if convicted.


Simmons and Hudgins were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court late Friday before Judge Stephen Knopf, who set bail of $15,000. They were scheduled to return to court on July 23.


A message left for Simmons' lawyer was not immediately returned. It was not immediately clear if Hudgins had hired a lawyer.


In 1999, DMX was fined and ordered to make public service announcements for the Humane Society after police found pipes for smoking crack cocaine, a pistol and 13 pit bulls at his home in Teaneck, N.J. He pleaded guilty to animal cruelty, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia in that case.


DMX has produced several rap albums and has acted in films including "Romeo Must Die," "Exit Wounds" and "Cradle 2 The Grave."

KAMA KAWAIDA,THATS MY MANZ IN DEM!

[mangwata]

Damn X, It's a wrap for X. Shake that crack habbit mang ,drop the rock. and pick up a mic. he be ruining him self.

[mangwata]

update


DMX Hit With Additional Charges, Leaves US For Tour
By Nolan Strong
Date: 6/26/2004 8:40 am

Earl "DMX" Simmons was treated at a New York hospital and has had additional charges slapped on him, due to an altercation with another driver at Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York.

Simmons and associate Jackie Hudgins were released on $15,000 bail. Simmons was initially charged with attempted robbery and impersonating an officer.

Additional charges of menacing, possession of a controlled substance, possession of a weapon and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, were added yesterday.

According to reports, the rapper told authorities he was rushing to catch a flight when another driver got in the way of him parking his SUV.

DMX flipped on flashing lights and a siren that were illegally placed on the SUV and chased the man, crashing through a toll booth.

When police arrived, they found DMX trying to pull the driver out of his car.

Port Authority police said that DMX was "out of it" when they arrested him.

The additional charges were added when police found crack cocaine, painkillers and a billy club in his vehicle.

DMX explained the painkillers were from an injury he received while filming a movie.

"None of this would have happened if DMX had just paid the parking fee [and left]" Queens Assistant District Attorney Corrine Henderson told the New York Daily News.

She also said that DMX's pants had fallen down to his ankles, but he was so high he didn't notice. Henderson added that DMX wasn't very cooperative with police while being arrested.

"He told them, 'I make moves. I make people disappear. Take these cuffs off me and we can go at it,'" she said.

He was later treated for breathing problems at Queens Hospital Center and was taken to detox, before being booked.

He caught a flight to Amsterdam, where he will kick of a European tour this weekend.

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Must be difficult to kick the thug habit!



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