According to local reports. Rapper Kodak Black was arrested on New Year’s Day in Broward County, Florida, for trespassing,
Born Octave Dieuson Black legally changed his name to Bill Kapri andwas taken into custody in the early hours January 1sr, according to his representatives.
Broward County Sheriff’s deputies said they “made contact with Bill Kapri” around 1:30 a.m. ET in the Pompano Beach area and after being taken into custody, the performer bonded out at approximately 4 a.m.
The sheriff’s department did not immediately respond to a request for information made by NBC News about the circumstances of Black’s arrest and trespassing accusations, which were not immediately clear.
According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Black had recently been celebrated for his philanthropy in the South Florida area, including paying college costs from the children of two slain FBI agents, paying funeral costs for a police officer in South Carolina, and honoring Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim Meadow Pollack by donating $100,000 to the Nova Southeastern University law school in her memory, the Sentinel reported.
After Black had served some half of a three-and-a-half-year sentence, Black also made headlines after former President Donald Trump commuted the performer’s sentence for falsifying records related to a gun purchase in Miami
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Author: Saul Goode
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