{"id":397975,"date":"2026-09-12T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397975\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:32:17","slug":"kodak-black-walks-free-as-orlando-prosecutors-decline-to-file-mdma-trafficking-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397975\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Black Walks Free as Orlando Prosecutors Decline to File MDMA Trafficking Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/shop\/artists\/kodak%20black\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kodak Black<\/a> is walking away from an MDMA trafficking charge in Orlando without ever facing a prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">The Orange County State Attorney&#8217;s Office has filed a No Information Notice, declining to prosecute the rapper, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, on a first-degree felony trafficking count due to lack of sufficient evidence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">The notice also directs that the records be cleared and any bond released. Kodak is also to be freed if in custody, provided no other charges or holds exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Kodak was <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/mack\/kodak-black-arrested-florida-tresspassing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">booked into the Orange County Corrections Department<\/a> on May 6 on the trafficking charge, which covered 10 to 200 grams of MDMA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">The case traced back to a Nov. 2025 encounter, when Kodak was not taken into custody that night and was arrested only months later after further investigation. Police said they recovered a pink bag holding MDMA and $37,000 in cash along with paperwork carrying his name, and that the drugs weighed 25.34 grams, above the 10-gram trafficking threshold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Kodak denied that the bag was his but asked for the money inside to be returned, saying it belonged to his business. Documents from the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office placed the bag inside a Lamborghini SUV said to be his.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">His attorney Bradford Cohen, who worked the case with co-counsel David Bigney, described the trafficking count as a coordinated surrender built on a vehicle search that turned up one passenger who was not Kodak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">&#8220;Myself and my co counsel David Bigney are grateful that we had a state attorney who read our case law and made the right decision to drop all charges,&#8221; Cohen said. &#8220;As I said from the beginning, this was an <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/cmplxjoshua-espinoza\/florida-prosecutors-drop-trespassing-charges-against-kodak-black\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrest that should not have happened<\/a>. Kodak has some amazing events and announcements coming up in the next few months, and we are excited to move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Kodak\u2019s filing landed after <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/tracewilliamcowen\/kodak-black-fleeing-charge-dismissal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a Broward County judge tossed a felony fleeing and eluding charge against <\/a>him, which stemmed from a Feb. 27 traffic stop. Deputies alleged he knew he had been ordered to stop and fled anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kodak Black is walking away from an MDMA trafficking charge in Orlando without ever facing a prosecutor. 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