DMX has been sentenced to six months in jail after not paying $400,000 in child support, The Source reports.
The rapper was placed in the Erie County holding center in Buffalo, New York on Tuesday (July 14) and remains there, according to the Erie County sheriff’s office.
(The original article in this thread was published on June 28, 2015 and is as follows.)
DMX was arrested in New York Friday (June 26) shortly before he was slated to perform at Radio City Music Hall, according to the Associated Press.
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A New York City Sheriff’s Department spokesman said the rapper was apprehended regarding several outstanding matters, including a robbery complaint in Newark, New Jersey; $400,000 in outstanding child support payments; and bail jumping in White Plains, New York.
Charges have not been filed in the Newark case.
DMX was slated to perform as part of the Masters Of Ceremony concert. Other artists on the bill were The LOX, Rakim, Ma$e, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Brand Nubian and Das EFX.
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