New Times has a story up saying that rapper DMX, the creepy serial animal abuser and petty crook, is going to be doing a gospel show to raise money for a Glendale Church. The celeb gossip site TMZ broke the story.

Both stories say he’s appearing at the church, but the poster says it’s actually at a Glendale high school.

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It’s not clear to me that the words “DMZ,” “church” and “public high school” should be appearing in the same sentence:

• In 2007, the county raided his house and found a dozen abused dogs, many of them starving—and the bodies of three more buried in the yard.

• Sheriffs also found marijuana “packaged for sale” and other drug paraphernalia, local papers said.

• A year later, sheriffs raided the house again to serve an arrest warrant — and found five new pit bull pups.

• On the petty crook level, he ran up $3000 in traffic fines in Cave Creek and never bothered to show up in court.

• He was also charged with “theft of services” from the local Mayo Clinic. According to the Republic, which based the story on a search warrant police executed, police say he went to the hospital and was diagnosed with pneumonia, but gave a false name and skipped out on the bill.

• Stealing from the Mayo Clinic. Nice!

• He’s also been sued by American Express for non-payment of nearly $100,000 in bills.

• And I’m forgetting something …

• Oh, yeah: He already has been convicted once on thirteen counts of abusing animals — which is why he left New Jersey for Arizona in the first place.

From the Republic:

In the New Jersey case, police found 13 pit bull puppies held in cages or crates in the basement and garage of the rapper’s Teaneck, N.J. home.

“They were growing into their cages,” said Ray Koski , a former special prosecutor who represented the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which brought the charges.

The confinement deformed the puppies, Koski said, adding that a veterinarian had to cut them out of their cages.

“They looked like they had grill marks on them,” Koski said. Four survived. The others either died or were euthanized, Koski said. Published reports said the house reeked of dog urine and feces and was infested with flies, when police arrived.