Judge dismisses final Kodak Black drug possession charge

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Kodak Black’s cocaine possession case has officially been dismissed.

According to Broward court documents released on Wednesday, Broward County Circuit Judge Barbara Duffy dismissed the remaining drug possession charge.

In late February, U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez had ruled in federal court in Miami that the rapper be released after he spent about two months behind bars for a probation violation. He pleaded guilty to failure to report police contact and got credit for time served.

In early February, in Broward County court, Judge Duffy dismissed a drug possession case against the rapper after a Plantation police arrest in December. Attorney Bradford Cohen, who was representing him, presented a 2022 oxycodone prescription that a pharmacy had filled.

The rapper’s legal troubles continued even after then-President Donald Trump commuted his three-year prison sentence in 2021 over a federal weapons charge conviction.

Kodak Black, whose migrant single mother Marcelene Octave was born in Haiti, grew up poor in Golden Acres, a public housing project in Pompano Beach.

Also known as Dieuson Octave and later Bill Kapri, the rapper co-parents with different women. He has a son named King Khalid and two daughters named Queen Yuri and Izzy. A pregnant woman, who was with the defense in federal court in Miami, said she was expecting the rapper’s fourth child — a son named Prince.

The separate trafficking case for Kapri from 2022 is still pending.