Kodak Black arrives on the MTV Video Music Awards at The Discussion board, Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, California. A drug possession cost towards the South Florida rapper was dismissed Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, two months after an arrest, although a drug trafficking case from 2022 stays ongoing. (Photograph by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida—A drug possession cost towards South Florida rapper Kodak Black was dismissed Friday, Feb. 9, two months after an arrest, although a drug trafficking case from 2022 stays ongoing.
Broward County Circuit Choose Barbara Duffy dominated that prosecutors couldn’t refute or negate the truth that the rapper, whose actual title is Invoice Kapri, had an oxycodone prescription stuffed by a pharmacy, the Solar Sentinel reported.
Plantation police arrested Kapri in December after discovering him asleep on the wheel with white powder round his mouth, officers mentioned. The powder initially examined constructive for cocaine, however a lab check later revealed it was oxycodone, for which Kapri obtained a prescription in July 2022.
Kapri nonetheless faces a tampering with proof cost associated to the arrest, however his legal professional, Bradford Cohen, hopes to get that dismissed, as effectively. Kapri has been in a Miami federal detention middle since his arrest, which triggered his bond to be revoked in a separate case. Cohen hopes the drug cost being dismissed will immediate a federal choose to free Kapri.
Kapri was arrested in 2022 on fees of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a managed substance with out a prescription. He was freed on bond with common drug testing as a situation of his launch. Kapri was ordered to drug rehab for 30 days early final 12 months after lacking a drug check in February after which testing constructive for fentanyl a number of days later, in accordance with courtroom data. Then final June, a warrant for his arrest was issued after authorities mentioned he didn’t present up for a drug check.
In January 2021, then-President Donald Trump commuted a three-year federal jail sentence the rapper had for falsifying paperwork used to purchase weapons. Kapri had served about half his sentence.
As Kodak Black, Kapri has offered greater than 30 million singles, with huge hits akin to “Tremendous Gremlin,” which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 2022.
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