DMX has just hit a huge stumbling block on the way to winning any “Father of the Year”; awards after he was arrested for non-payment of US$400,000 in child support.
According to New York’s WPIX, the New York Sheriff’s Office confirms the rapper was arrested in NYC Friday night for “several issues outstanding.”;
Among these “issues”; was 400 grand in unpaid child support payments to his his ex-wife Tamera Simmons, along with additional outstanding warrants for jumping bail, “aggravated”; driving of an unlicensed motor vehicle and a criminal complaint that names the rapper (real name: Earl Simmons) as a suspect in the April 5 robbery of a gas station in Newark, New Jersey.
You can add DMX’s latest arrest to his lengthy rap sheet, which includes charges of animal cruelty, dog fighting, possession of weapons and drugs, reckless driving, DUI, and a number of probation infractions.
The New York Post“s Page Six reports he was released on bail shortly after his arrest.