ORLANDO, Florida — Rapper Kodak Black was arrested this week in central Florida on a drug trafficking charge, according to jail and court records.
Kodak Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was booked into the Orange County Jail on Wednesday, May 6, on a felony charge of trafficking MDMA, also known as ecstasy or molly.
Court records showed that Kapri, 28, entered a written plea of not guilty on Thursday and requested a jury trial. He also waived his appearance at a future arraignment hearing. Authorities set his bond at $75,000.
The arrest stemmed from a November incident in Orlando after residents reported hearing gunshots in a neighborhood, according to a police report. Officers responding to the area encountered several people gathered around parked luxury SUVs, including Kapri.
Police said an officer saw a white substance on a $100 bill inside a Lamborghini SUV that smelled of cannabis, prompting a search of the vehicle. During the search, officers recovered a pink bag containing a plastic bag of MDMA, $37,000 in cash, and documents bearing Kapri’s name.
Investigators said the pink bag and a lighter found inside matched items seen in a photograph Kapri had posted on Instagram.
According to the report, people at the scene denied ownership of the bag, including Kapri, who told officers the money belonged to his business and requested its return.
Representatives Ambrosia Healy and Kevin Young of Universal Music Group did not respond to requests for comment.
Kapri has faced several previous legal cases. In 2023, police in Plantation arrested him after officers found him asleep in a vehicle with white powder around his mouth. Authorities initially identified the substance as cocaine, but laboratory testing later determined it was oxycodone prescribed to him legally.
That arrest violated his probation in a separate case and resulted in his detention in Miami for two months.
In 2022, Kapri was also arrested on charges related to oxycodone trafficking and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. Court records later showed he was ordered into a 30-day drug rehabilitation program in 2023 after missing a drug test and later testing positive for fentanyl.
In January 2021, President Donald Trump commuted Kapri’s federal prison sentence for falsifying documents used to purchase firearms.
As Kodak Black, Kapri released several commercially successful songs, including Super Gremlin, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022.
