Rapper DMX Arrested in Upstate for License Violation

11:18 AM, Feb 13, 2013   |    comments
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Earl Simmons, a.k.a. DMX (Image: Spartanburg County Detention Center)

GREER, S.C. (AP) - The rapper known as DMX has been arrested in South Carolina for driving without a license.
 
Authorities say the 42-year-old, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested at 1 a.m. Wednesday after an officer saw him at a Greer gas station. Simmons already faced several charges of driving without a license, so deputies say an officer pulled him over after watching Simmons leave a gas station, get into a car and drive away.
 
Simmons was released after paying a fine. It wasn't clear if he had an attorney.
 
Simmons was arrested in a Phoenix suburb in 2011 after a trooper clocked him driving at 102 mph. He had recently finished a stint in prison on probation revocation for failing to submit to drug testing and driving without a license.