An arrest warrant has been issued for rapper Kodak Black, on bail in a drug case, after he allegedly failed to show up for a drug test before testing positive for fentanyl.
The warrant was issued by a Broward County Circuit Judge on Thursday and revealed by a number of news outlets, including TMZ, over the weekend.
It’s not clear if the hip-hop hitmaker, whose “Super Gremlin” was a top track on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart last year, planned to surrender. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office requested the warrant, alleging the rapper, also known as Bill Kapri, was a no-show for a scheduled drug test to be administered Feb. 3 by a contract testing services company.
The sheriff’s affidavit filed to support the issuance alleges that Black submitted to the test late, on Feb. 8, and the results were positive for fentanyl.
The testing was required as part of his pretrial release on bail for a case that alleges Black trafficked oxycodone. His release was revoked as part of the arrest warrant.
Florida Highway Patrol officers said they found 31 oxycodone pills in his vehicle during a July traffic stop over possible illegal tint on the vehicle’s windows.
Black, whose residence is listed as Miramar, Florida, pleaded not guilty.
Both oxycodone and fentanyl are synthetic opioids, and both can be legal if prescribed or properly administered at medical facilities.
Illicit fentanyl, said to be many times more potent than heroin, has been flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border and is widely cited as a cause of overdoses in the United States.
Black has been the subject police scrutiny in recent years. He was arrested based on allegations of trespassing in the Pompano Beach, Florida, area on New Year’s Day 2022. Prosecutors declined to file charges.
Weeks later, Black was injured in a shooting outside a nightclub in Los Angeles. Bradford Cohen, Black’s attorney, said the rapper had come to the aid of someone who was the target…
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