Prosecutors have dropped three of the five charges against Kodak Black following his January 18 arrest, but the often-incarcerated rapper found himself facing two additional charges on Thursday (February 22), according to the Sun Sentinel.
The prosecution added charges of felony possession of cannabis and possession of ammunition by a delinquent. They dropped the charges of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, third-degree grand theft and child neglect.
Black, whose real name is Dieuson Octave, was originally arrested after he posted an Instagram Live video that showed party guests smoking marijuana around his infant son. Another guest was allegedly brandishing a pistol near the child. Black, who has been on probation since August 2016, isn’t allowed to have drugs or guns in his possession.
His attorney, Bradford Cohen, was successful in filing a motion to dismiss some of the charges, arguing the video didn’t show his client holding the weapon. But he still has an uphill battle with the new charges added to Black’s case.
“It was the right decision for them to make,” Cohen told the Sun Sentinel. “Clearly there’s still more work to do, but I’m glad the State Attorney’s Office considered the information I sent them and the arguments I was preparing to make to drop those charges.”
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(The original version of this article was published on January 18, 2018 and can be found below.)
Kodak Black is once again behind bars.
According to Broward’s Sheriff Office records, the Pompano Beach, Florida native was taken into custody on Thursday (January 18) on multiple charges, including grand theft of a firearm, gun possession, drug possession (marijuana), child neglect and probation violation. In total, there are seven new charges pending against the 20-year-old.
The Project Baby 2 rapper was evidently live streaming when police raided the house he was in. In the video, a police officer is heard asking for Kodak’s phone and says it’s “part of this search warrant.”
Kodak was initially arrested for robbery, battery, two counts of false imprisonment of a child under 13 years of age, three counts of false imprisonment of an adult, driving with a suspended license and marijuana possession in 2015.
After violating his probation, he was sentenced to 364 days in jail but got out 180 days ahead of schedule for participating in an early release program. He officially walked out of jail last June. He was given a year of house arrest and another five years of probation. He was also required to take an anger management course which he completed.
Last October, he was indicted on criminal sexual conduct charges in South Carolina as well. He was charged in November 2016 and released from jail in December 2016 after posting a $100,000 bond.
He was also recently ordered to pay $4,000 a month in child support.
WPLG 10 reports Kodak is currently being held at Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale.
He might as well just call it a day. He seems to lack any common sense to keep himself out of trouble. He just seems plain ignorant.
What did you expect? He’s black.
Your mother!
For wanting to have a gun and some weed? 1 being a constitutional right guarenteed by our founding fathers and the other florida a state thats about to become recreationaly legal for canibus and they throw child endagerment in there just to make it stick even though i could name DOZENS of people with children and have guns in the home or vehicle and have weed in their homes… some cops are just pathetic and petty and cant believe someone like kodaks riding around in a car worth more than anything they could ever own other than a house they take 30+ years to pay for and is broken down by the time its paid for so they harass the fuck outa young men like kodak especialy in flordia depending on the side of it your on… only ignorant one i see is someone who has NEVER caught a charge trying to debate about it go back and talk about you my little pony or carebear collection something you do understand
I don’t know why you would stick up for Kodak, but you’ve managed to say about six incredibly dumb things in seven lines of text. Please change your philosophy on shit.
Coming from a pussy whos never touches a gun other than with an instructor in sight and explain to me whats endagering about having marijuana and and a gun around a child? If the guns locked up like it should be its a non issue and its perfecrly fine to have a bottle or two of booze in the car as long as the seals not broken or its in trunk and its perfectly fine to have pills in the car that can kill your child upon consuption as long as they got your name on them so explain to me whats endagerment of a child? And buddy where i come from almost every household has at least 1 gun in it if not a dozen lol
Where the fuck do you live that everybody has gun in their house? What war zone do you live in. I can’t defend kodak black for his dump shit. I would not have a gun around a child. What if you forget to put the gun on safety while smoking weed. I can’t front. i smoked for a period and i know how your mind gets to be forgetful. What if the child picks up the gun and kills somebody. Weed and guns are a dangerous mixture even if your a professional heat holder. Kodak black needs to go to jail for being irresponsible adult. Yes, no more kodak black albums.
Dumb and dumber
So you’re just gonna overlook the whole “child endangerment” charge there?
I’m sure it was the racist white cops fault.
What are you doing on here Bradley? Don’t you have a school to shoot up or some lacrosse practice to go to?
Got to have more common sense than that. Just plain stupid. I did parole. It’s not hard, don’t smoke,don’t be around guns. Simple. That’s really disappointing he had a chance to be great,rise up, idiot.
Next time put a bullet in that piece of shit.
They need to lose the key this time when they lock him up this time
Seriously did anyone even expect anything other than this from him? I mean just fuckin look at him. Tatted face, gold teeth, stupid hair. You really think he would be a decent person looking like that? The fuck outta here. He’s destined to fail in life.
Y’all act like y’all don’t have a cousin that stays getting locked up all the time.
I don’t, I live in the suburbs
Hell no. Because not all us are black, you know.
God bless your ignorance
Im white and have 2 cousins and a great uncle locked up.
Good, now lets get the rest of these trap artists locked up and music will be a lot better.
I don’t wish this on anyone, however, when you’re dumb ass can’t get out of your own way and you keep fukin up, then so be it. His music is trash, he is trash, and I’m waiting for the next trap rapper to stunt on IG get swarmed by SWAT. Let’s go!!!
Dude, child imprisonment…. fuck this guy.
addicted to that pipe in his crack
Young ignorance.
I feel sorry for him he obviously has mental health problems.
I don’t lol
Lol Sambo goes to jail?
They about to give this man Bobby Shmurda time…he’s done…wasted his life!!
Nah their shooting in the dark all the charges they wantsd on him went down now their just trying to charge him for ammo next step that shit gets reduced and hes out
not even they dropped the 2 most serious charges and added 2 new lil bullshit charges he wont even get meek mill time
Fuck this dude but think about that kid, another young black man with terrible role models.
“Black, whose real name is Dieuson Octave, was originally “… you a fucking ignorant ass writer aren’t you Kyle Eustice