Bill Kahan Kapri, more commonly known by his stage name Kodak Black, was recently arrested and taken into police custody this past Friday, July 15, 2022. Occurring at approximately 4:30 p.m. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the young rapper was reportedly stopped by officers after they noticed an expired registration on Kodak’s purple Dodge Durango and what appeared to be illegal tints. According to an official document from Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, state troopers experienced a “strong odor of raw marijuana coming from the vehicle’s interior” and “found $74,960 in cash and a transparent bag with 31 white tablets, which were later identified as oxycodone.”
The 25-year-old social media personality has been sitting in Broward County Jail ever since the Florida Highway Patrol released him into the custody of the local state troopers; Kodak is now being charged with possession of a controlled substance without prescription and trafficking oxycodone. His current defense attorney, Bradford Cohen, updated the public on his client’s present situation and how he plans to advance the circumstances — “There are always additional facts and circumstances that give rise to a defense, especially in this case… We will get him a bond today and move forward with resolving the matter quickly.”
As most of his fans already know, this is not the artist’s first run-in with the law. In November 2019, U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno sentenced Kodak to three years in federal prison, after pleading guilty to multiple weapons charges: He admitted to “falsifying information on federal forms to buy four firearms from a Miami-area gun shop on two separate occasions,” according to official files from the court. Luckily, the popular Roll in Peace rapper was included as one of the 143 individuals that former United States President Donald Trump pardoned on one of his final days in the White House, Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Kodak Black served approximately half of his full three-year sentence before Trump freed him, Louisiana rapper Lil Wayne, and many other Americans.