Kodak Black Arrested Again, Second Bust in One Week

Kodak Black is back behind bars — again. The South Florida rapper was arrested Thursday in his hometown of Pompano Beach, facing charges of fleeing and eluding law enforcement and resisting an officer without violence, according to Broward County jail records. It’s his second arrest in seven days.

His attorney, Bradford Cohen, tells TMZ that Kodak actually self-surrendered on the charges — and he’s not hiding his frustration about it. “This is a self surrender from yet another ‘investigation’ that just happened to also take 5 months to ‘investigate’ for allegedly fleeing and eluding,” Cohen said. He added that the pattern feels all too familiar: “It’s not unexpected, as this is usually the procedure we go through where there is an unfounded weak arrest and then followed up by yet another arrest for cases that allegedly take 5 or 6 months to investigate. At this point I think everyone agrees that Kodak is consistently being targeted.”

As of Thursday, Kodak — whose legal name is Bill Kapri — is being held at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale with bond set at $0 on the new charges, pending a hearing.

One Week After the MDMA Bust

The timing is striking. Just last week, Kapri pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of trafficking MDMA stemming from an incident in Orlando last November. According to Orange County Sheriff’s Office documents, deputies responded to reports of gunfire and found two idling vehicles near Kapri. A search turned up a pink bag containing more than 25 grams of MDMA, $37,000 in cash, and documents bearing his name — and the bag matched one visible in a photo on his own Instagram. Kapri denied owning the bag but reportedly asked for the money back, saying it belonged to his business.

He posted $75,000 bail on those charges and was ordered to stay away from drugs, certain associates, and firearms while the case moves forward. Cohen had already dismissed that case as a “total joke,” arguing police had no probable cause to make the arrest. A jury trial is now pending.

A Long Legal History

Thursday’s arrest is the latest chapter in a years-long legal saga for the 28-year-old rapper. In 2022, Kapri was arrested on charges of trafficking oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, eventually released on bond with drug testing conditions. In 2023, police in Plantation, Florida found him asleep at the wheel with white powder around his mouth — powder that initially tested positive for cocaine but was later identified as oxycodone, for which he had a prescription. That arrest still violated his probation, landing him in a Miami jail for two months. He was also ordered into 30 days of drug rehab that same year after missing a drug test and later testing positive for fentanyl.

Before all of that, Kapri served roughly half of a three-year federal prison sentence for falsifying documents used to purchase weapons — until then-President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in January 2021.

Through it all, Kodak Black’s music career has remained massive. He’s sold more than 30 million singles, including “Super Gremlin,” which climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022. His representatives at Universal Music Group did not respond to requests for comment.

Cohen’s message, at least for now, is clear: his client walked in on his own, and he believes the case won’t hold up. Whether the courts agree is another matter entirely.