Kodak Black’s lawyer asks judge for leeway after charges still not filed in Orange County arrest
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —
The attorney for Florida rapper Bill Kapri, whose stage name is Kodak Black, has asked a judge to release him from all bail and pre-trial release conditions because charges still have not been formally filed after his May arrest in Orange County.
Kapri, 29, was booked into the Orange County Jail on May 6, arrested via warrant in connection with a November incident in the area of Mercy Drive and Fairvilla Road during which he was accused of drug trafficking.
Orlando police officers responding to reports of gunshots located two running vehicles — a BMW and a Lamborghini, both SUVs — with several people gathered around them, according to the affidavit for that arrest warrant.
An officer who approached the BMW reported detecting the smell of burnt cannabis, the affidavit states. The officers then began to search the BMW after its driver said they didn’t have a medical card, according to the affidavit.
During the search, officers allegedly turned up a bag containing 56 grams of cannabis and “a metal container containing a pink pill substance” that tested positive for MDMA, the affidavit states.
In the Lamborghini, besides another 28 grams of cannabis that police reported finding, a bag on a passenger seat contained around 25 grams of a substance that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported in April had tested positive for MDMA, according to the affidavit. The report notes 14 grams is considered the trafficking weight of MDMA, according to Florida Statutes.
Kapri was later arrested to face a charge of trafficking in MDMA, records show. WESH 2 News was there as Kapri posted $75,000 bond the next day and was released from jail.
Tuesday, Kapri’s lawyer filed a motion to release him from bail, as well as from all requirements of bail and all requirements of pretrial release.
The motion argues that because no information or indictment had been filed in the case despite 63 days having passed since Kapri’s arrest, he should either be automatically released on his own recognizance or be subject to 30 additional days of pre-trial release.
“Per Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.134(b) The state must file formal charges on defendants on pretrial release by information, or indictment, or in the case of alleged misdemeanors by whatever documents constitute a formal charge, within 60 days from the date on which defendants are arrested or from the date of the service of capiases on them,” the motion states.
>> This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released