South Florida rapper Kodak Black was freed from jail Wednesday immediately after a federal judge sentenced him to time served for a probation violation, even though a drug trafficking case from 2022 stays ongoing.
U.S. District Choose Jose E. Martinez in Miami handed down the sentence approximately two weeks after a drug possession charge was dismissed in neighboring Broward County, in accordance to court records.
Broward County Circuit Judge Barbara Duffy ruled before this month that prosecutors could not refute or negate the point that the rapper, whose serious identify is Bill Kapri, had an oxycodone prescription stuffed by a pharmacy.
Plantation police arrested Kapri in December soon after acquiring him asleep at the wheel with white powder around his mouth, officials claimed. While authorities mentioned the powder in the beginning examined constructive for cocaine, a lab check later unveiled it was oxycodone, for which Kapri acquired a prescription in July 2022.
The arrest was a violation of his probation from an unrelated circumstance, which led to him staying locked up in Miami for two months.
Kapri was arrested in 2022 on prices of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance devoid of a prescription. He was freed on bond with frequent drug screening as a ailment of his launch. Kapri was purchased into drug rehab for 30 times early very last year immediately after lacking a drug check in February and then testing optimistic for fentanyl several times later, in accordance to court records. Then very last June, a warrant for his arrest was issued immediately after authorities stated he did not display up for a drug examination.
In January 2021, then-President Donald Trump commuted a three-year federal jail sentence the rapper experienced for falsifying files utilized to get weapons. Kapri had served about fifty percent his sentence.
As Kodak Black, Kapri has bought more than 30 million singles, with massive hits such as “Super Gremlin,” which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Incredibly hot 100 in 2022.
