Lauren LaRosa (11:53)
want to segue on into the latest because we're talking about people, you know, just, just having things that they're having to deal with in real life. And for me it's like okay, we sit and we talk about all of this news and we report all this news. But what I'm beginning to learn as I get older as well too is like there's always there are humans behind these stories with real lives, real, you know, effects that the headlines really affect them in real life. And they're actually people are really battling these controversies that we are covering because it's trending or it's what people are talking about in real life. And speaking of a person who it seems like, you know he's been battling a lot over these last couple of years. Kodak Black. So today I broke a story via my Twitter handle, Lauren LaRosa. L O R E N L O R O S A and we spoke about it a bit on the Breakfast Club as well, too, that Kodak Black is back at it again, going back and forth with the law, this time down in Florida. So I gotten a tip through someone connected to the show that Kodak Black had been arrested down in Florida. I reached out to his attorney, Bradford Cohen, who then confirmed to me that Kodak Black had been taken into police custody. Now, what he tells me is that Kodak Black actually turned himself in on the night of Cinco de Mayo because their team had been notified that marshalls planned to arrest Kodak Black. So Kodak Black got in contact with his attorney. His attorney reached out to the US Marshals down in Florida, down in Orlando, Florida. He flew in from California and turned himself in. Once he turned himself in, he was then charged with drug, drug trafficking and they mentioned MDMA and the charges. Now, Kodak Black's attorney, Bradford Cohen, tells me that he believes his client is being targeted by police. And here's why he's saying that. So for background, this is all stemming from an incident that happened in November of 2025. So back in November 2025, police say that they were responding to a phone call of gunshots fired in a neighborhood. When they arrived, they found two luxury vehicles, one of them being a Lamborghini suv. They approached the vehicles after responding to the call with and there were a ton of people in and around the vehicles. Kodak Black, they allege, is one of the people that were around the vehicles, but not in the vehicle. Police alleged that the, the vehicle smelled like weed. So the officers then had probable cause to search the vehicle. So they did that. Police say when they searched the vehicles, they then found a hundred dollar bill inside the Lamborghini SUV that had a white substance on the hundred dollar bill. They then say they found a pink bag containing a plastic bag of MDMA. They found in that pink bag $37,000. And they also found in that pink bag a ton of documents with Kodak Black's name listed on them. Now, police say that at the time of the, you know, the search on the scene that no one wanted to take ownership for the bag or anything that was found. But Kodak Black did ask police officers if he could have the $37,000 back because he said that it belonged to his business, even though the bag was not his. Now, police then say later on in their investigation, following these searches, they went on Instagram and found photos, they alleged photos that they found of Kodak Black with a pink bag that matched the bag that was found at the scene, where things were found in a very specific lighter that was, I guess, found at the scene as well, too, was in another one of the photos in Kodak Black's possession. So they are linking Kodak Black to this bag that was found with the drugs from photos from Instagram. Now, originally, I will say originally, when I talked to Kodak Black's attorney, he had told me that police officers said that they found a bottle of cough syrup Orlean in the pink bag, and on that bottle there were fingerprints and that the fingerprints checked out to be Kodak Blacks. Now, that is changing. Now, you know, Kodak Black's attorney is telling me there are no fingerprints on anything whatsoever, but that police are only linking him to that pink bag and charging him because of the photos that they found on Instagram. And he tells the photo that was found on Instagram was from a week prior to the search that police are leaning everything on. Now, Kodak Black made his first appearance in court yesterday. I was told, you know, earlier yesterday when I talked to his attorney that he'd be making an appearance in court that they, you know, weren't worried at all about him receiving a bond. And that is what happened. Even though the. The bond amount and how it escalated to me signals some things about what we might see later on in this case. And I'll get to that. But Kodak Black made his first appearance in court yesterday. He pled not guilty. He asked for a jury trial, which is really smart in a situation like this, and I'll explain why to that as well. And he also waived his right to appear in person at an upcoming arraignment in Florida, which just means that his team will be able to go for him and just say not guilty again or whatever is needed. Now, the state requested that, you know, in light of his occupation and the fact that he is not actually from Orlando, that the bond be increased and that one of the conditions be that he surrender his passport. But Kodak Black's attorney says that, you know, Kodak Black is a Haitian American. He is a proud Haitian American, but he is an American. He has a US Passport. He doesn't have any plans on leaving the country. And that, you know, they face cases that are 10 times more than the case that they're currently having a conversation with. And his attorney makes it clear that he's won, by the way. But the fact that he's a rapper doesn't give, you know, the state any legal room to act for harsher, harsher bond or, you know, harsher bond circumstances.
