Florida rapper Kodak Black has bonded out of jail after being arrested in Orlando earlier this week on a drug trafficking warrant related to a November incident. His bond was set by a judge Thursday at $75,000, despite efforts by his lawyers to set a bond of $10,000.
According to county clerk of court records, the 28-year-old rapper — whose legal name is Bill Kapri — is accused of trafficking the synthetic drug MDMA. Kapri was arrested Wednesday after flying from California to Florida to turn himself in, according to the Orlando Sentinel, which notes that the investigation into Kapri first began last November.
The story began on Nov. 24 when Orlando Police Department officers responded to reports of gunshots at 910 Fairvilla Road, the address of Children’s Safety Village, in the Mercy Drive area. Officers found three individuals inside a BMW vehicle, which also contained a “smell of freshly burnt cannabis,” according to an affidavit. The cops searched the vehicle, while another man — identified later by police as Kodak Black — “approached officers and began observing the search.”
Searching a second vehicle, a green Lamborghini, police then found a white bag containing marijuana, a pink bag containing $37,000 and a quantity of MDMA, and a pair of pink scissors. An identification card with the name Bill Kapri, who is Haitian-American and a resident of Fort Lauderdale, was also found in the vehicle.
Police claim the pink scissors and pink bag found in the vehicle have been featured before in social media posts published to Kapri’s Instagram account. The affidavit notes that the two rings found on the floor of the vehicle have also been featured on Kapri’s Instagram.
Black officially entered a plea of “not guilty” in court Thursday and his lawyers reportedly vowed to fight the “ridiculous” charges, according to WFTV. Another man found sleeping in the rear seat of the second vehicle last November, James Demetrius Twitty, was also arrested in April on charges of possession of cannabis and concealing a firearm. His charges were later dropped, however, on the same day of Kapri’s arrest.
Kapri’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, told the Sentinel that neither vehicle searched last November was personally registered to Kapri, and that fingerprints pulled from items in the pink bag (containing the MDMA) did not trace back to his client either.
Kapri’s music, produced under his professional name Kodak Black, has touched on issues ranging from heartbreak to depression, his childhood, and his experience with incarceration. Orlando Weekly noted in a review of one of his Orlando shows in 2021, “In the limelight as he is, not a single movement of his goes unnoticed.” Kapri first gained recognition as a rap artist in 2014 for his songs “No Flockin” and “Skrt.” He scored a record deal with Atlantic Records the following year.
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