Bill Kahan Kapri, the Pompano Beach rapper the world knows as Kodak Black, was booked into the Orange County Jail on Wednesday on a felony charge of trafficking MDMA. He is 28 years old, held without bond, and expected to face a judge Thursday morning. His attorney, Bradford Cohen, is already publicly framing the booking as a coordinated surrender tied to a November 2025 traffic stop in which Kodak was not the passenger. Cohen says investigators recovered a bag containing a bottle of prescription cough syrup that allegedly carried Kodak’s fingerprint, and he intends to fight what he is calling a charge built on a weak legal basis.
The booking lands in a long, complicated legal history that has shadowed one of the most commercially successful rappers of his generation. Kodak has moved more than thirty million singles. “Super Gremlin” sat near the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The other side of his career has played out in courtrooms across South Florida and federal jurisdictions for nearly a decade.
His most consequential federal moment came in November 2019, when Kapri was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to falsifying information on documents used to buy firearms. He was already incarcerated when, in January 2021, Donald Trump commuted his sentence on the final day of his first term in the White House. Kapri had served roughly half of the original sentence by the time he walked free.
The period after the commutation did not stay quiet for long. In 2022, Kapri was arrested in Fort Lauderdale and charged with trafficking oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He was released on bond with regular drug testing as a condition. That case became the spine of the legal supervision he has been navigating ever since.
In December 2024, Plantation police pulled Kapri out of a vehicle after finding him asleep at the wheel with white powder around his mouth. Officers initially said the substance tested positive for cocaine, but a lab analysis later identified it as oxycodone. A Broward County judge eventually dismissed that drug possession charge after his attorneys produced a valid oxycodone prescription dated July 2022, the same month of his original trafficking arrest.
The probation side of his federal case continued to generate problems through 2024. After missing a scheduled drug test in February of that year and then testing positive for fentanyl days later, Kapri was ordered into inpatient drug rehabilitation for thirty days. A federal warrant was issued for his arrest in June 2024 after he failed to appear for another scheduled test.
That stretch closed in July 2025, when U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez in Miami sentenced Kapri to time served for the probation violation. The immediate federal heat was off, though the underlying 2022 state trafficking case remained open.
The current Orange County matter follows a rough month for the people closest to him. On April 14, his ex Jammiah Broomfield, the mother of one of his children, was arrested in Fort Lauderdale on her own trafficking charge after a vehicle pursuit ended with her abandoning a black Tesla and running on foot. Investigators said she told them she had picked up the drugs for her boyfriend. Broomfield remains in custody at the Paul Rein Detention Facility with bond set at fifty thousand dollars, and several probation related charges are attached to the case.
Cohen, who has represented Kapri through nearly every stage of his adult legal life, will be back in front of a judge Thursday morning to argue against the hold and begin building a defense around the November 2025 traffic stop. Whether the fingerprint on the cough syrup bottle becomes the centerpiece of a winnable defense or the latest entry in a legal history that already runs more than a decade deep will start to come into focus in court today.
