The latest arrest of rapper Kodak Black stems from him allegedly fleeing from deputies during a traffic stop in Broward back in February, a prosecutor said Friday.
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The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, appeared before a Broward judge following his arrest Thursday on charges of fleeing and eluding law enforcement and obstruction/resisting an officer without violence.
An arrest affidavit said the alleged incident happened back on Feb. 27, when Kapri “did have knowledge that he had been ordered to stop such vehicle by a duly authorized law enforcement officer, stopped in knowing compliance with such order, and proceeded to flee from deputies.”
During Friday’s hearing, one of the rapper’s attorneys argued that there were no lights or sirens and no one on an intercom telling him to stop, and said he wasn’t going at an excessive speed.
“The defendant was pulled over, initially failed to stop, and ended up getting into another vehicle and then taking off during the pendency of that stop,” the prosecutor said. “I would note that all of the other individuals that were present were armed. And the defendant was ordered not to leave the scene of the stop and defied that order.”
“When they say everyone was armed, that pulled up, that was his security team. So yes, his security team is armed, they are licensed to carry. It is a Second Amendment state,” defense attorney Bradford M. Cohen said. “And they all have permits for their firearms.”
“I’m not gonna hold that against Mr. Kapri, it’s, they have a right to carry, I’m not seeing any violation there, I don’t have any issue with that,” Judge Corey B. Friedman said.
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Friedman set Kapri’s bond at $3,500 and ordered him not to possess any weapons or firearms.
He left jail later Friday with his head covered by a blanket and didn’t speak with reporters.
The arrest is the latest legal trouble for Kapri, a native of Pompano Beach.
He was arrested earlier this month in central Florida on a drug trafficking charge, for which he has pleaded not guilty.
Orange County Jail records list the original charge as trafficking more than 10 grams and less than 200 grams of MDMA, the drug commonly known as ecstasy or molly. The case dates back to an incident in November, the rapper’s attorney said.
In 2023, he was booked into the Broward County jail for alleged possession of cocaine, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and improperly parking or stopping a vehicle, records showed. The case was later dismissed.
The rapper was also arrested in Fort Lauderdale in July 2022 after Florida Highway Patrol troopers pulled him over and found 31 oxycodone tablets and $74,960 in cash, authorities said. He was also driving with an expired driver’s license and tags at the time.
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