Rapper Kodak Black, one of the recipients of a pardon from former President Donald Trump before leaving the White House in 2021, is facing an arrest warrant issued by Broward County authorities, local media reported on Sunday.
The warrant was issued last Thursday, but so far the 25-year-old rapper has not been reported in police custody.
Born in Florida and actually going by the name Bill Kahan Kapri, the rapper is accused of violating the terms of his probation for using drugs, which was detected during the last periodic analysis he underwent.
Kodak Black tested positive for the opioid fentanyl on Feb. 8, according to local Channel 10, which had access to the document along with the arrest warrant.
The rapper, who was convicted of a weapons possession charge, from which he was pardoned by Trump in January 2021, was arrested last year on drug possession and trafficking charges and is awaiting trial.
In a car with an expired license plate that he was driving in without a valid license, police found 31 white oxycodone tablets and $74,960 in cash in a small bag.
Court records show he pleaded not guilty to both counts last July.
On January 20, 2021, a day before leaving the White House, then-President Donald Trump granted 73 pardons and commuted their respective sentences to 70 other people, following a tradition in the United States.
Far-right Steven Bannon, a Trump campaign strategist in 2016 and accused of defrauding donors for the construction of the controversial border wall with Mexico, was one of the recipients of the presidential pardon, along with rappers Lil Wayne and KodakBlack.