{"id":266435,"date":"2026-05-11T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:49:16","slug":"rapper-kodak-black-bonds-out-of-jail-after-arrest-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266435\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Kodak Black bonds out of jail after arrest in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Kodak Black at the 2022 BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta (Sept. 30, 2022) Credit: Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Florida rapper Kodak Black has bonded out of jail after being arrested in Orlando earlier this week on a drug trafficking warrant related to a November incident. His bond was set by a judge Thursday at $75,000, despite efforts by his lawyers to set a bond of $10,000.<\/p>\n

According to county clerk of court records, the 28-year-old rapper \u2014 whose legal name is Bill Kapri \u2014 is accused of trafficking the synthetic drug MDMA. Kapri was arrested Wednesday after flying from California to Florida to turn himself in, according to the Orlando Sentinel<\/a>, which notes that the investigation into Kapri first began last November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The story began on Nov. 24 when Orlando Police Department officers responded to reports of gunshots at 910 Fairvilla Road, the address of Children\u2019s Safety Village, in the Mercy Drive area. Officers found three individuals inside a BMW vehicle, which also contained a \u201csmell of freshly burnt cannabis,\u201d according to an affidavit. The cops searched the vehicle, while another man \u2014 identified later by police as Kodak Black \u2014 \u201capproached officers and began observing the search.\u201d<\/p>\n

Searching a second vehicle, a green Lamborghini, police then found a white bag containing marijuana, a pink bag containing $37,000 and a quantity of MDMA, and a pair of pink scissors. An identification card with the name Bill Kapri, who is Haitian-American and a resident of Fort Lauderdale, was also found in the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police claim the pink scissors and pink bag found in the vehicle have been featured before in social media posts published to Kapri\u2019s Instagram account. The affidavit notes that the two rings found on the floor of the vehicle have also been featured on Kapri\u2019s Instagram.<\/p>\n

\"\"Instagram posts identified by law enforcement and later featured in an affidavit to issue a warrant for Kapri\u2019s arrest. Credit: Orange County Clerk of Courts<\/p>\n

Black officially entered a plea of \u201cnot guilty\u201d in court Thursday and his lawyers reportedly vowed<\/a> to fight the \u201cridiculous\u201d charges, according to WFTV. Another man found sleeping in the rear seat of the second vehicle last November, James Demetrius Twitty, was also arrested in April on charges of possession of cannabis and concealing a firearm. His charges were later dropped, however, on the same day of Kapri\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

Kapri\u2019s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, told the Sentinel that neither vehicle searched last November was personally registered to Kapri, and that fingerprints pulled from items in the pink bag (containing the MDMA) did not trace back to his client either.<\/p>\n

Kapri\u2019s music, produced under his professional name Kodak Black, has touched on issues ranging from heartbreak to depression, his childhood, and his experience with incarceration. Orlando Weekly noted<\/a> in a review of one of his Orlando shows in 2021, \u201cIn the limelight as he is, not a single movement of his goes unnoticed.\u201d Kapri first gained recognition as a rap artist in 2014 for his songs \u201cNo Flockin\u201d and \u201cSkrt.\u201d He scored a record deal with Atlantic Records the following year.<\/p>\n

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