DMX Pays For Prison Food Fight

06/09/09 11:51am

by Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack)

DMX has been sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation for throwing a food tray at a prison employee.

The rapper actor born Earl Simmons reportedly assaulted a detention officer with a tray while he was serving time at an Arizona jail earlier this year. I guess no one ever told DMX the first rule of food fights — don't throw anything until the lunchroom supervisors leave the cafeteria!

Simmons had originally been placed at the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City Jail. Lisa Allen, spokeswoman for the sheriff's office, told the Phoenix New Times newspaper in February that DMX was moved to a state of "lockdown" — solitary confinement — at the Towers jail in downtown Phoenix after he repeatedly at the prison's guards. Prisoners are served "Nutra-loaf" — a slab made of mysterious ingredients, instead of the usual prison gruel — while in lockdown. Talk about a lunchroom surprise.

Simmons wasn't a fan of the mystery loaf, and at one mealtime he decided to go for the more palatable gruel.

"I'm sure he was really hungry," Allen told the Phoenix New Times. "When the detention officers went to pass out the evening meal on Sunday, he grabed [sic] a meal that wasn't his."

An officer told him to hand back the tray of gruel, but Simmons threw the tray and yelled, "Fuck you!"

"The officer was covered in slop," said Allen.

X pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault May 22, eight days after he was released from serving 90 days in the prison on drug, theft and animal abuse charges. Maricopa County Superior Court judge Robert Gottsfield ruled on Monday that the 38-year-old Simmons must spend 18 months under supervised probation and attend counseling. Maybe X will have time to read his Bible now.

Simmons was arrested in May 2008 on drug and animal abuse charges. The widely publicized arrest involved sheriff's deputies raiding the rapper's home, where they discovered malnourished pit bulls and dog carcasses.

DMX's seventh and eighth studio albums — a hip hop record titled Walk With Me Now and a gospel album, You'll Fly With Me Later — were slated to drop Oct. 14, 2008, but the date has since been pushed back. The rapper has sold over 28 million records during his career.