PLANTATION, Fla. – The latest details on South Florida rapper Kodak Black’s arrest last month have emerged.
Prosecutors say Kodak Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was trying to hide oxycodone, not cocaine, when he stuffed white powder in his mouth after police found him asleep at the wheel in Plantation on Dec. 7, the Sun Sentinel reported Tuesday.
According to court records, Kapri is facing one count of possession of oxycodone and one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, a month after the traffic stop that the rapper’s attorney says violated his constitutional rights.
Kapri’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, is arguing that the rapper has a valid prescription for the drug and told the Sun Sentinel that he plans to present evidence to that effect on Wednesday.
State Attorney’s Office spokesperson Paula McMahon told the outlet that prosecutors spoke with one of the defense attorneys Tuesday morning and “will review any documentation the defense wants to send over.”
In a post on Instagram Tuesday morning, Cohen accused Kapri’s arresting officer of lying and misrepresenting his observations.
“Unbelievable and it will not be tolerated,” Cohen wrote, describing it as an “abuse of power.”
Cohen argued that the officer should not have initiated the traffic stop because Kapri was not actually blocking traffic at the time or intending to block traffic.
The officer “was relying solely on speculation and the mere possibility of future traffic obstruction,” the motion states.
“I would get a copy of the police report and draw your own conclusions,” Detective Robert Rettig, a spokesperson for the Plantation Police Department, told the Sun Sentinel in response to Cohen’s accusations Tuesday.
Kapri’s arrest report showed that the powder field-tested positive for cocaine. After searching him, police said they found a plastic baggie with a small amount of a white substance in Black’s left pocket. The powder from the ground and in the bag weighed 4.1 grams.
In response to the allegations, Cohen argued that the field test kits are “presumptive.”
He claimed that the field tests give officers probable cause to make an arrest but are not definitive, which is why the substance is then sent to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Crime Lab for analysis and the State Attorney’s Office files charges based on the lab results.
According to Kapri’s arrest report, Plantation police officers found a black Bentley with its taillights on parked on the 600 block of Northwest 47th Terrace around 2 a.m.
Authorities said the car was blocking the road when an officer approached the driver’s side door and found a man, later identified as the 26-year-old rapper asleep inside the vehicle.
After approaching the vehicle, the officer noted smelling marijuana and seeing residue, along with “cannabis wrapping paper” on the center console of the vehicle,” the report stated.
According to police, upon questioning, Kapri admitted to having “weed” in the car. Detectives said that officers also found a Styrofoam cup emitting the odor of alcohol.
After asking Kapri to step out of the car, police said they noticed his mouth was covered in white powder, and white rock-like substances were scattered on the ground, according to the affidavit.
Police wrote in the arrest report that he “reasonably believed Kapri was trying to discard illegal narcotics,” the report stated.
Kapri’s December arrest is not the rapper’s first encounter with the law, who, prior to his December arrest, was most recently cuffed in July 2022.
During that incident, in Fort Lauderdale, Kapri was initially arrested on July 16, 2022, on charges of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription in addition to driving with an expired driver’s license and tags.
Kapri was also issued an arrest warrant on Feb. 26 after he failed to submit to random drug and alcohol testing on Feb. 3.
On Feb. 8, he did take a drug and alcohol test, which showed a positive result for Fentanyl, according to his arrest report.
Court records show Kapri is required to take drug tests as part of his pre-trial release program but has not shown up for drug tests multiple times, according to BSO.
Cohen concluded his Instagram message by stating, “This level of abuse of power by the arresting officer is disgusting. We will be seeking a new bond hearing and addressing these unethical practices by the police department.”