Kodak Black Found Asleep at Wheel, Charged With Cocaine Possession
An officer found a Bentley SUV in the road with the rapper Kodak Black sleeping at the wheel in Plantation early Thursday morning, and a probable cause affidavit said he was arrested.
Black, who is legally named Bill Kapri, faces charges of tampering with physical evidence, possession of cocaine, and parking or stopping his vehicle improperly.
The affidavit said the officer saw the SUV blocking the northbound lane in the 600 block of Northwest 47th Terrace shortly after 2 a.m. The officer went to the car and saw Kapri asleep with the window partly down and smelled “a strong odor of burnt cannabis.” The rapper was alone in the car.
The officer turned the car off and opened the door when another officer came, the affidavit said. The officer said in the affidavit a Styrofoam cup that smelled of alcohol was in the door handle, and he saw residue and cannabis papers on the center console.
According to the affidavit, Kapri said there was “just some ‘weed'” in the car when officers asked if there was anything illegal or any weapons inside.
The affidavit said one of the officers saw “white powder falling from his person” while Kapri was turned away from the officer, when the officer was checking Kapri’s driver’s license and the car information at the patrol car. The officer wrote in the affidavit he thought Kapri was trying to hide narcotics because the patrol car’s bright lights made the powder visible.
The officer wrote in the affidavit, “I exited my vehicle and noticed Kapri’s mouth was full of white powder.” “I observed white rock like substances on the ground and put Kapri in handcuffs. Kapri said that it was ‘Percocet.'”
The affidavit said the powdery substance was cocaine when it was tested at the scene, and Kapri was taken into custody. Officers found a small amount of a white substance in a plastic baggie in Kapri’s left pocket. The affidavit said the powder in the bag and on the ground weighed 4.1 grams.
The affidavit said the Bentley SUV had damage to the door and the front passenger’s side bumper, and it “appeared it was involved in a recent crash.”
Kapri’s attorney was not available for comment right away on Thursday afternoon.
This arrest follows a series of legal problems since Black’s arrest on July 16, 2022, on charges of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and trafficking in oxycodone.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office said the rapper has to take drug tests as part of his pre-trial release program but has missed drug tests several times, and court records show two separate warrants for his arrest were issued because of this.
A judge told Kapri to go to a South Florida drug rehab center for 30 days in February, after he had fentanyl in his system in a drug test he took earlier that month. His attorney Bradford Cohen said at a hearing to the Broward County judge that he thought the positive drug test was a paperwork mix-up or someone else’s.
According to court records, Kapri did not show up for a planned drug test in June, and he went to jail before he got out on bail the next day.
Prosecutors made a motion to take away his bond in his 2022 case that is still going on after Kapri’s arrest on Thursday.
Kapri was arrested on a weapons charge in May 2019, before he was supposed to perform at the rap music festival Rolling Loud. Former President Donald Trump shortened his federal prison sentence on his last day in office in 2021, after Kapri served about half of it.