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Rapper Kodak Black Gets Prison Sentence in Weapons Case

Associated Press

   MIAMI - Rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to more than three years
   in federal prison after pleading guilty to weapons charges stemming
   from his arrest just before a scheduled concert performance in May.

   The 22-year-old Black admitted in August that he falsified information
   on federal forms to buy four firearms from a Miami-area gun shop on two
   separate occasions.

   Black also faces drug, weapons and sexual assault charges in other
   states. Black is a Florida native who was born to Haitian American
   parents as Dieuson Octave and who now goes by the legal name of Bill
   Kapri.

   He was arrested during a Miami-area hip-hop festival in May that was
   marred by several violent incidents, The rapper is known for songs such
   as "ZeZe" and "Roll in Peace."

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