Kodak Black, the Florida-based rapper, was scheduled to appear in court in Orlando on Thursday on a felony drug charge stemming from an incident last year in which gunshots were allegedly fired near a children\u2019s educational building.<\/p>\n
The musician, who has a long history of arrests and was sentenced to a three-year prison term<\/a> on a firearms charge in 2019 before being pardoned by Donald Trump<\/a>, turned himself in to the Orange county jail on Wednesday, multiple media reports said.<\/p>\n An arrest warrant states that the 28-year-old, whose real name is Bill Kahan Kapri, engaged officers who responded to a report of gunfire near Children\u2019s Safety Village in November.<\/p>\n Police said they arrived to find a number of people surrounding two SUVs, a Lamborghini and a BMW. Officers smelled cannabis and found during a search \u201ca pink pill\u201d weighing about 25mg that tested positive for methylenedioxymethamphetamine, the synthetic psychoactive drug known as MDMA.<\/p>\n The pill was allegedly inside a pink bag with documents bearing Kapri\u2019s name, along with $37,000 in cash, the warrant states. The rapper initially denied the bag was his, according to the Florida department of law enforcement (FDLE), then tried to get officers to hand him the money, insisting it belonged to his business.<\/p>\n Kapri is charged with one felony count of trafficking MDMA of less than 200mg, which has a mandatory minimum prison sentence of three years, a maximum of 30 years, and a fine of up to $50,000.<\/p>\n Brad Cohen, Kapri\u2019s lawyer, told TMZ<\/a> that his client\u2019s arrest had a \u201cweak legal basis\u201d common to his previous legal encounters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe look forward to yet another fruitful resolution to another case that should have never been filed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to Cohen, Kapri was not a passenger in either car and his fingerprint found in the bag was on a bottle of prescription cough medicine that he had every right to have touched.<\/p>\n