{"id":397369,"date":"2026-09-11T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397369\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:22:13","slug":"drug-trafficking-charge-against-kodak-black-dropped-after-orange-county-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397369\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug-trafficking charge against Kodak Black dropped after Orange County arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug-trafficking charge against Kodak Black dropped after Orange County arrest<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789168933_435_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brandon Hogan\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A charge of drug trafficking that Florida rapper Bill Kapri faced after his May arrest in Orange County has been dropped, records show. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Kapri, whose stage name is Kodak Black, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/rapper-kodak-black-arrested-orange-county-drug-trafficking\/71239403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">booked into the Orange County Jail on May 6<\/a>, having been arrested via warrant in connection with a November incident \u2014 in the area of Mercy Drive and Fairvilla Road \u2014 during which he was accused of trafficking in MDMA.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">A judge in July granted a request from Kapri&#8217;s attorney to release him from all bail and pre-trial release conditions because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/kodak-black-orange-county-bail-conditions-motion\/73232869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charges still had not been formally filed at that time<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">A No Information Notice filed Friday states prosecutors would not file charges in the matter because the evidence received was insufficient to prove possession of contraband. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drug-trafficking charge against Kodak Black dropped after Orange County arrest ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A charge of drug&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6275,1330,158348,8597,2785,20949,158344,14382,158345,61105,158346,158343,139,141,140,158347,11878,6412],"class_list":["post-397369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-attorney","tag-charge","tag-fairvilla-road","tag-friday","tag-judge","tag-july","tag-kapri","tag-kodak-black","tag-may-arrest","tag-mercy-drive","tag-no-information-notice","tag-orange-county-arrest","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-pre-trial-release-condition","tag-prosecutor","tag-request"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397369","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=397369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}