A yellowish textured material found in rapper DMX [ tickets ]'s Cave Creek, AZ, home last week is not an illegal drug, according to reports. However, the rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, isn't completely in the clear.

"We're still looking at what type of powder that is," Sheriff Joe Arpaio told the Associated Press on Tuesday (8/28). "But we did seize a useable quantity of marijuana. He does have a drug situation there."

A Maricopa County Sheriff's Department spokesman referred LiveDaily to quotes Arpaio provided the Associated Press.

Besides the drugs, sheriff's deputies found three dead dogs, guns, ammunition and drug paraphernalia during a Friday (8/25) raid on the rapper's home. Arpaio said officers were working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine whether DMX had gun permits.

Authorities were looking into how the dogs died. Deputies found 12 other dogs that appeared malnourished. The raid was based on a tip that DMX's pit bulls were neglected.

Arpaio told the Arizona Republic Wednesday (8/26) he is sending the carcasses of three dogs found buried at DMX's home to a forensics scientist in Atlanta to discover their cause of death.

"That could be important evidence in our case," Arpaio said.

He added that it is unclear who is responsible for giving the dogs food and water. DMX's New York-based attorney Murray Richman told the newspaper on Wednesday that he hasn't been to his Cave Creek home in at least two months. (Calls to the lawyer by LiveDaily went unanswered.) The home was left to caretaker Brad Blackwell, according to the Republic.

The Associated Press reports Blackwell said in an affidavit that he had only agreed to take care of the dogs for a couple of days until DMX could find someone else. According to the affidavit, deputies were told that DMX's manager had been sending him money for dog food through Western Union.

The rapper has had trouble with the law before, according to the Associated Press. He pled guilty in 1999 to animal neglect after 13 pit bulls were found in his Teaneck, N.J., home.

Authorities reportedly also found cars on DMX's property with improper license plates attached. That is being investigated as well.