Kodak Black‘s request through his attorneys to enter into a drug treatment program has been shot down by the courts.
The Miami Herald is reporting that judge Jacqueline Becerra ruled against Kodak’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, on Tuesday (December 21). In her denial of the motion, Beccera called the rapper, real name Bill Kapri, a menace to society.
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“If you’re buying drugs or using drugs, you’re a danger to the community,” she said, with the federal prosecutor agreeing that Florida authorities wouldn’t be able to keep track of Kodak Black if he were allowed to leave the state.
Bradford Cohen initially requested for his client to enter rehab on Tuesday (December 19).
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The latest docket and orders, which were obtained by HipHopDX, reveal that the next hearing in Kodak Black’s case will be held on January 9, 2024 — which means that the rapper will have to spend Christmas behind bars.
Judge Barbara Duffy, who is overseeing the case, has allowed the state to submit a subpoena for Kodak’s full pharmacy records, presumably to see exactly where the rapper is getting his drugs.
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Kodak Black’s latest round of legal troubles began on December 7, when he was charged with cocaine possession and tampering with physical evidence as well as being improperly parked.
Four days later, he formally pleaded not guilty to the charges and has requested a trial by jury.
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According to the police report, officers approached Kodak’s Bentley when they observed the vehicle parked on an active roadway. When they approached the vehicle, they claimed they could smell alcohol and upon searching the car found cannabis rolling paper, cannabis residue and white powder.
They also claimed that Kodak’s mouth was full of white powder.
During an Instagram Live on December 11, the Florida rapper made numerous confessions about his drug usage, including that he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on rehab.
Addressing his recent arrest for cocaine possession, Yak said: “I was on the lean, homie. I was asleep in front of my family house, bro. That’s it. That ain’t illegal.”
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He went on to call the arrest “bogus” and took issue with his mugshot being “plastered all over the internet.”
In the rambling clip, Kodak Black also denied taking cocaine, saying: “Come on, fam. Hell fuck no, bruh. Hell nah. And I ain’t finna say I’m against muthafuckas who do coke. Man, I ain’t on that shit.”
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He then admitted to abusing Percocet, which he says was prescribed to him after he was shot in the leg in February 2022.
“I’ll tell God himself I do Percs and shit like that, but them was my medicine prescribed to me,” he said. “Even before I got shot and I had got prescribed to them again, I could say that I had started damn abusing [them].”
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The “Super Gremlin” hitmaker went on to say that he’s currently working on getting himself clean and once spent $350,000 on rehab.
“I’m working on myself. I’m working right now, homie,” he continued. “I paid $350,000 and shit to get clean and get better […] I’ve done went to rehab by myself without the court having to tell me to do that. Just me wanting to better myself. I got children, homie, and I have to be here for them. I never have enough time on the streets to even be no junkie.”
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But on Sunday (December 17), HipHopDX confirmed with the Federal Bureau of Prisons that the 26-year-old rapper had been placed in custody in the Federal Detention Center in Miami, FL.
While it’s not clear when Kodak Black was placed in federal custody, it is clear that he remains behind bars as the BOP doesn’t list a release date.
