Kodak Black has been arrested in Florida on Wednesday and booked into the Orange County Jail on a felony charge of trafficking MDMA, according to jail records. The 28-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, is being held with no bond.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office took Kodak Black into custody. Per TMZ, the rapper was booked for allegedly trafficking “METHYLE.-METH (MDMA),” a synthetic drug that acts as a stimulant. He is expected to appear before a judge on Thursday.
The arrest is connected to an Orlando police investigation in November 2025, Local 10 News reported. Officers had responded to reports of gunfire near Children’s Safety Village on Fairvilla Road in Orlando. When they arrived, they found a group of people gathered around two vehicles. One was a BMW SUV. The other was a Lamborghini SUV.
Officers said they smelled burnt cannabis coming from the BMW. They searched the vehicle and found cannabis along with a pink pill that tested positive for MDMA. According to the arrest warrant, Kodak Black approached the officers during the search and observed what was happening.
Investigators compared items found inside the vehicle, including a bag and a lighter, to images posted on Kodak Black’s Instagram accounts. Authorities said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement later confirmed the substance recovered from the bag was MDMA. The total weight was about 25 grams.
Kodak Black and the others at the scene denied ownership of the bag. But when officers told the rapper that there was money inside the bag, he allegedly tried multiple times to have the cash handed to him. He told police the money belonged to his business, the warrant stated.
Based on this investigation, Orlando police filed a warrant charging Kapri with trafficking in MDMA between 14 and 200 grams. That is a felony charge under Florida law.
Kodak Black’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, is fighting the case. Cohen told TMZ the arrest was a coordinated surrender. He said his client’s fingerprint was found on a bottle of prescription cough syrup that was inside the bag. Cohen said the trafficking charge has a “weak legal basis” and plans to push back hard against it.
This is not Kodak Black’s first run-in with the law. The South Florida rapper has been arrested several times on charges including weapons possession, drug offenses, and probation violations. In 2019, he was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for falsifying information on federal firearm purchase forms. President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in January 2021.
The new arrest also follows a difficult few weeks for the people in Kodak Black’s life. As BET.com previously reported, Jammiah Broomfield, the mother of one of his children, was arrested on April 14 in Fort Lauderdale on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Kodak Black responded to that arrest on social media, writing, “SMH FREE MY BM AGAIN.”
Kodak Black, born in Pompano Beach, Florida, broke through with his 2017 hit “Tunnel Vision.” He has since released several Billboard 200 chart-topping albums and worked with major artists across hip hop. He remains in custody pending Thursday’s court appearance. He is presumed innocent unless convicted in a court of law.
Source: BET
