A week after rapper Kodak Black was accused of drug trafficking charges in Orlando, the South Florida native is facing charges in Broward County stemming from a traffic stop earlier this year.
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The rapper, whose name is Bill Kapri, was arrested Thursday on a Broward Sheriff’s Office warrant dated April 30 for one count of fleeing and eluding law enforcement and one count of resisting an officer without violence, according to the warrant.
Shortly after 3 p.m. Feb. 27, a BSO deputy pulled over a pink Grand Jeep Cherokee in the area of Northwest 18th Drive and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Pompano Beach after the deputy saw the car obstructing traffic on a nearby street, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Kapri got out of the car and started talking with the deputy, the affidavit said. Two more cars arrived to the scene, a dark-colored SUV and a dark-colored minivan. “An unknown male” got out of the SUV and “stood there watching the traffic stop.”
The minivan pulled in next to the deputy’s marked BSO car and “began to maneuver itself between the BSO marked unit and the suspect vehicle,” the affidavit said. Two men, one who had a gun “clearly visible on his waistband,” got out of the van and started to approach the deputy.
As the deputy told the men to step back from the scene, one of the men said, “I’m his security,” according to the affidavit. As the deputy waited for backup to arrive, Kapri got into the driver’s seat of the Jeep and drove away, the affidavit says.
Minutes later, another deputy found the Jeep in the area of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, approaching the overpass for Interstate 95.
The Jeep then pulled over into a nearby parking lot. The driver and only person inside was identified as Terrence Henley, 47, according to the affidavit. The affidavit said Kapri willfully intended to evade law enforcement by fleeing in the Jeep and “changing drivers within 10 minutes.”
The detective detained Henley, and after a K-9 search of the car, the detectives found 16 grams of suspected oxycodone, about three grams of marijuana, $26,000 in cash and pieces of high-end jewelry, the affidavit said.
Kapri was released from the Broward Main Jail after he posted bail on a $3,500 bond Friday, his attorney Bradford Cohen said.
Kapri has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
“… That it would take three months to figure out that they need to file an arrest for fleeing and eluding, that’s just not the way that it works,” Cohen said. “It’s still factually insufficient, legally speaking.”
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Kapri was arrested last week in Orange County after flying from California and turning himself in, his attorney previously told the Sun Sentinel.
On Nov. 24, Orlando Police responded to reports of gunshots and found several people gathered around two running cars. Officers searched the first car and found 56 grams of marijuana, a pill that tested positive for MDMA and $60 in cash. Kapri walked up and began observing the search, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
Officers then searched the second car, a green Lamborghini SUV, and found a pink bag in the back seat containing 25 grams of MDMA and $37,000. The bag had documents with Kapri’s name on them inside, including a prison card, the affidavit said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed the bag’s contents as MDMA on April 17, and Orlando Police secured an arrest warrant.
Kapri has pleaded not guilty to those charges.
“It’s very unusual that he is arrested on a case in Orlando from six months ago, and then Broward decides it’s now time to charge him on an alleged fleeing and eluding … This is not the second arrest within eight days. All of this happened five and six months ago,” Cohen said.
Kapri was presented a key to his hometown Pompano Beach last year. At the ceremony, Mayor Rex Hardin lauded him as “an individual whose journey from these very streets to international acclaim has been remarkable, but whose heart has never left this community.”
The city selected him for the honor for his charitable contributions to the community, including donating air conditioning units to families in public housing, giving out hundreds of turkeys during the holiday season, providing Christmas gifts to children in the community and helping 200 families pay their rent, the Sun Sentinel previously reported.
His philanthropy was noted in a statement from the White House in 2021 when Donald Trump commuted his federal prison sentence, of which Kapri had served half of the three-year sentence.
He has been arrested several times in South Florida in recent years on drug- and weapon-related charges.
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Sun Sentinel staff writer Shira Moolten contributed to this report.