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28Jul/10

Rapper DMX begins 90-day jail sentence in LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An functionary says rapper DMX has turned himself in at a courthouse to make a ~ning serving a 90-day jail sentence for a 2002 case.

Los Angeles City Attorney speaker Frank Mateljan (mah-TEHL'-jin) says the 39-year-old rapper turned himself in Monday afternoon. The passed on a criminal stems from a probation violation on a 2002 reckless driving settled belief.

Mateljan says the judge ruled that the rapper cannot be freed in c~tinuance electronic monitoring, work release or home detention.

DMX's real person is Earl Simmons. He has been repeatedly arrested and jailed in the bygone time decade, recently serving a sentence in an Arizona jail for violating trial by failing a drug test.

A representative for the rapper could not without any intervention be reached Monday, and it was unclear if he was represented ~ the agency of an attorney in court.