South Florida rapper Kodak Black has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking after police used his Instagram posts to link him to MDMA found in a Lamborghini in Orlando.
The 28-year-old Fort Lauderdale resident, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was arrested Wednesday in Orange County after flying from California and turning himself in, according to his attorney.
The investigation began Nov. 24 when Orlando Police responded to reports of gunshots about 1 a.m. at the Children’s Safety Village nonprofit in west Orlando, court records show.
Police found several people gathered around two running cars. Officers searched the first car and found 56 grams of marijuana; a pill that tested positive for MDMA, better known as molly or ecstasy; and $60 in cash. Kapri walked up and began observing the search, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
Officers then searched the second car, a green Lamborghini SUV, and found a pink bag in the back seat containing 25 grams of MDMA and $37,000. The bag also contained documents with Kapri’s name on them, including a prison card and a distinctive lighter shaped like a handgun, the affidavit said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed the bag’s contents as MDMA on April 17. Orlando Police then secured an arrest warrant, the agency said Thursday.
Previous Instagram posts Kapri had made appeared to show him with the same pink bag and lighter. He denied the bag or its contents were his but tried to have officers turn over the money to him, saying it belonging to his business, according to the affidavit. Also found in the car were two rings and a pair of pink scissors that also appear to be seen in Kapri’s Instagram posts.
Kapri entered a plea of not guilty in court Thursday. A judge granted him a $75,000 bond after declining his attorneys’ requests for a $10,000 bond, with the judge noting his 12 previous felony convictions. The judge also denied prosecutors’ request to have Kapri surrender his passport.
He remained at the Orange County Jail as of late Thursday afternoon.
Kapri’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, said neither vehicle at the scene was personally registered to his client. The Orlando Police Department on Thursday declined to confirm whether the Lamborghini belonged to Kapri.
Another man was found asleep in the Lamborghini’s back seat next to a bag containing 28 grams of marijuana. He also had a gun, although the man had a concealed weapon license, according to records.
Prosecutors charged that man, James Twitty, on April 24 with possession of over 20 grams of marijuana and possession of a concealed firearm in commission of a felony. Those charges were dropped Wednesday, the same day as Kapri’s most recent arrest, court records show.
Kapri has a history of legal issues at the same time he has been praised for his charitable activities. In July 2025, he was presented a key to the city of his hometown of Pompano Beach. At the time, Pompano Beach Mayor Rex Hardin praised Kapri as “an individual whose journey from these very streets to international acclaim has been remarkable, but whose heart has never left this community.”
The rapper’s rise to fame started in 2016 with the release of his debut studio album “Painting Pictures.” Over the past decade, he has donated air conditioning units to families in public housing, given away hundreds of turkeys during the winter holiday season, provided Christmas gifts and bicycles to local children and even helped 200 families pay their rent.
But his history in the legal system was also well known, including a 2016 assault case in South Carolina and numerous arrests in Florida for drug and weapons possession. Black became a fixture of jails and courtrooms, culminating in his three-year, 10-month prison sentence on a federal weapons charge in 2019.
Information from the South Florida Sun Sentinel archives was used to supplement this report.