{"id":262957,"date":"2026-05-08T03:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262957\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:15:14","slug":"rapper-kodak-black-arrested-on-drug-trafficking-charge-in-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262957\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Kodak Black arrested on drug trafficking charge in central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Rapper Kodak Black<\/a> was arrested this week on a drug trafficking charge in central Florida in his latest run-in with law enforcement.<\/p>\n

The rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was booked into the Orange County Jail on Wednesday on a felony charge of trafficking MDMA, the synthetic drug also known as ecstasy or molly.<\/p>\n

Kapri, 28, entered a written plea of not guilty and asked for a jury trial on Thursday. He also waived appearing in person at a future arraignment hearing in state court. His bond was set at $75,000.<\/p>\n

Kapri\u2019s arrest followed a police encounter in Orlando in November when officers were called to a neighborhood in Orlando by residents who reported hearing gunshots. Officers encountered a bunch of people hanging out around parked luxury sports utility vehicles, including Kapri, according to a police report.<\/p>\n

An officer noticed a white substance on a $100 bill inside a Lamborghini SUV, which smelled of cannabis, giving the officer probable cause to search the vehicle. During the search, the officer found a pink bag containing a plastic bag of MDMA, $37,000 and numerous documents with Kapri\u2019s name on them, the police report said.<\/p>\n

The pink bag matched a bag seen in a photo of Kapri that the rapper had posted to his Instagram account. The bag also contained a distinct lighter that also was in the photo, investigators said.<\/p>\n

According to the police report, everyone at the scene denied owning the bag, including Kapri, who nevertheless said the money belonged to his business and asked for it back.<\/p>\n

Ambrosia Healy and Kevin Young, who represent Kapri at Universal Music Group, didn\u2019t respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n

Kapri has faced previous legal issues. <\/p>\n

In 2023, police in Plantation, Florida arrested Kapri<\/a> after finding him asleep at the wheel with white powder around his mouth, officials said. Although authorities said the powder initially tested positive for cocaine, a lab test later revealed it was oxycodone, for which Kapri obtained a prescription.<\/p>\n

The arrest was a violation of his probation from an unrelated case, which led to him being locked up in Miami for two months.<\/p>\n

Kapri was also arrested<\/a> in 2022 on charges of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He was freed on bond with regular drug testing as a condition of his release. Kapri was ordered into drug rehab<\/a> for 30 days in 2023 after missing a drug test and then testing positive for fentanyl several days later, according to court records. <\/p>\n

In January 2021, then-President Donald Trump commuted a three-year federal prison<\/a> sentence the rapper had for falsifying documents used to buy weapons. Kapri had served about half his sentence.<\/p>\n

As Kodak Black, Kapri has sold more than 30 million singles, with massive hits such as \u201cSuper Gremlin,\u201d which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022.<\/p>\n

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This story has been updated to correct rapper Kodak Black\u2019s arrest stems from November, not December, encounter with police in Florida. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Follow Mike Schneider on the social platform Bluesky: @mikeysid.bsky.social<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Rapper Kodak Black was arrested this week on a drug trafficking charge in central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113462,113074,265,409,39817,104,1882,28,30,29,477,4100,113257,14382,1598,4138,478,139,1840,30119,1110],"class_list":["post-262957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-animal-poaching-and-smuggling","tag-bill-kapri","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-drug-crimes","tag-entertainment","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-general-news","tag-indictments","tag-kevin-young","tag-kodak-black","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mike-schneider","tag-national","tag-orlando","tag-prisons","tag-trials","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}