Rapper Kodak Black was arrested Thursday in Florida on drug possession charges, the musician’s third arrest in two years.
The hip-hop artist, 26, was booked in Broward County on charges of possession of cocaine, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and improperly parking or stopping a vehicle, according to jail records reviewed by PEOPLE.
Black, who was listed under his legal name, Bill Kapri, was released the same day on $5,000 bail, according to NBC News.
The star’s attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment, nor did a spokesperson for the Plantation Police Department.
An arrest report obtained by WTVJ said Black was arrested in Plantation after an officer found him asleep in the driver’s seat of his Bentley SUV, which was parked in the roadway.
Kodak Black is facing an arrest warrant after failing a pretrial drug test for human trafficking
Kodak Black in Paris in January 2023.
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The officer reportedly noticed a “strong smell of burnt cannabis” when he approached the vehicle, opened the car door and found a cup on the center console that smelled of alcohol and drug paraphernalia, the paper reported.
Black was then asked to get out of the vehicle, and when asked if he had a weapon or anything illegal, he said he had weed. The officer then allegedly noticed the white powder and stated in the report: “I’m reasonable [sic] believe [Black] was trying to dispose of illegal narcotics.”
NBC News reported that a white substance found at the scene tested positive for cocaine, weighing 4.1 grams, according to court documents.
Black, who released his sixth album When I was dead in November, was ordered into 30-day drug rehab in February after testing positive for fentanyl during a mandatory drug test, according to the Associated Press. He also reportedly had a warrant out for his arrest in June after he skipped a mandatory drug test (Black was charged with trafficking oxycodone and possession of a controlled substance in July 2022, with regular drug testing as a condition of his release).
“Never judge a case based on an arrest,” his attorney, Bradford Cohen, told PEOPLE at the time of the arrest. “There are facts and circumstances that give rise to a defense, especially in this case.”
The musician was also arrested in Pompano Beach, Florida in 2022 on trespassing charges, and in 2021 he took a plea deal to first-degree assault and battery after being accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in February 2016.
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