FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. ā Dieuson Octave -- better known as rapper Kodak Black -- is fighting back.
When the 20-year-old rapperĀ was arrested, officers with the Broward Sheriff's Office gang unit reported finding a stolen gun from Tamarac in his officeĀ and another gun in his safe. He doesn't live alone, andĀ he alsoĀ had several friends coming in and out of the home.Ā
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The officers reported an Instagram video showing teens smoking marijuana and "recklessly" playing with a gun near his sonĀ at his home prompted them to get a search warrant and raid his home.
"Not only rolling a marijuana cigarette, but blowing it right there in front of the child's face,"Ā said Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Attorney Bradford M. Cohen, who is is representing Octave, filed a notice of taking depositionsĀ Friday to question three deputiesĀ in the raid Feb. 8. Octave, who remained in Broward County jail in Fort Lauderdale,Ā claims that the stolen gun that officers found was not his.Ā
After his Jan. 18 arrest, Broward County Judge Joel Lazarus denied Octave's bond. He appeared in court for a probation hearing Monday. He facesĀ charges of grand theft of a firearm, two counts ofĀ possession of a weapon or ammunition by a felon,Ā suspicion of committing child neglectĀ and two counts of violating of probation.