BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Broward judge decided that South Florida rapper Kodak Black can be released on bond in his two drug cases Friday, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, currently remains in a federal detention center in Miami, jail records show.
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Kapri’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, hopes to have him freed at another hearing early next week.
The 26-year-old South Florida rapper said he is expecting a baby boy next Friday, who he plans to name Prince, Cohen told the Sun Sentinel after the hearing. It will be his fourth child.
“I’m asking for a little bit of deference so he can see his child being born,” Cohen told Judge Barbara Duffy in court Friday morning.
A drug possession charge against South Florida rapper Kodak Black was dismissed last Friday, two months after an arrest, though a drug trafficking case from 2022 remains ongoing.
Broward County Circuit Judge Barbara Duffy ruled that prosecutors could not refute or negate the fact that the rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, had an oxycodone prescription filled by a pharmacy, the Sun Sentinel reported.
Plantation police arrested Kapri in December after finding him asleep at the wheel with white powder around his mouth, officials said. The powder initially tested positive for cocaine, but a lab test later revealed it was oxycodone, for which Kapri obtained a prescription in July 2022.
Kapri still faces a tampering with evidence charge related to the arrest, but his attorney, Bradford Cohen, hopes to get that dismissed, as well. Kapri has been in a Miami federal detention center since his arrest, which caused his bond to be revoked in a separate case. Cohen hopes the drug charge being dismissed will prompt a federal judge to free Kapri.
Kapri was arrested in 2022 on charges of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He was freed on bond with regular drug testing as a condition of his release. Kapri was ordered to drug rehab for 30 days early last year after missing a drug test in February and then testing positive for fentanyl several days later, according to court records. Then last June, a warrant for his arrest was issued after authorities said he did not show up for a drug test.
After a sidebar with the attorneys, Duffy decided to reinstate the $250,000 bond in a separate case from 2022, in which Black is charged with trafficking in oxycodone. She also granted him $5,000 bond in the December case.
Although Kapri is still charged with tampering with evidence, Cohen indicated that he seeks to have the charge thrown out.
His next hearing is set for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday before Federal Judge Jose E. Martinez.