MIAMI– South Florida rapper Kodak Black was released from prison Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to prison for a probation violation, although a 2022 drug trafficking case remains ongoing.
U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez in Miami handed down the sentence nearly two weeks after a drug possession charge was dismissed in neighboring Broward County, court records show.
Broward County Circuit Judge Barbara Duffy ruled earlier this month that prosecutors could not refute or deny the fact that the rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, had an oxycodone prescription filled by a pharmacy.
Plantation police arrested Kapri in December after finding him asleep at the wheel with white powder around his mouth, officials said. Although authorities said the powder initially tested positive for cocaine, a lab test later revealed it was oxycodone, for which Kapri received a prescription in July 2022.
The arrest was a violation of his probation from an unrelated case, which led to him being incarcerated in Miami for two months.
Kapri was arrested in 2022 on charges of trafficking in oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He was released on condition of regular drug testing as a condition of his release. Kapri was sentenced to 30 days in rehab early last year after missing a drug test in February and testing positive for fentanyl days later, court records show. A warrant was issued for his arrest last June after authorities said he failed to show up for a drug test.
In January 2021, then-President Donald Trump commuted a three-year federal prison sentence imposed on the rapper for falsifying documents used to purchase guns. Kapri had served about half his sentence.
As Kodak Black, Kapri has sold more than 30 million singles, with massive hits like “Super Gremlin,” which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022.