Sheriff's deputies were investigating animal cruelty allegations when they searched DMX's Arizona residence where they discovered 200 grams of a suspected illegal narcotic, a variety of assault-style weapons and the bodies of three dogs.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that the drugs are being tested and that no charges have been filed yet. He was called out to investigate allegations that DMX has not been properly feeding and watering his pet pit bulls, according to AP. DMX's attorney says that the dogs were left in the care of a caretaker. 

Arpaio says that they are still investigating the animal cruelty allegations and that a dozen pit bulls were seized from the rapper's North Phoenix home. Investigators dug up the bodies of three dogs that were buried in the rapper's yard. 

According to a Contact Music report, DMX says that he hasn't been to the property in two months and that a caretaker was supposed to be looking after the dogs. "We had a caretaker that wasn't taking care, that's what happened," DMX's lawyer Murray Richman says. "He loves dogs, he loves these animals. Those dogs are practically his family." 

So he leaves "family" in the care of someone else for two months without checking on them?

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