Lil Durk was trying to flee the nation previous to his Thursday (October 24) arrest.
In line with the indictment, the rapper booked no less than three worldwide flights following the murder-for-hire arrests of 5 folks related to Solely the Household (OTF). The indictment reveals regulation enforcement personnel arrested the 32-year-old upon his arrival at a Miami-area airport.
The FBI discovered he’d booked the worldwide flights after Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston have been taken into custody. Prosecutors allege the lads all have ties to OTF, which Durk shaped in 2010. The 5 males have been indicted on federal fees in Los Angeles for allegedly plotting to kill rapper Quando Rondo, who was concerned in King Von’s 2020 homicide.
U.S. Customs and Border Safety alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that Lil Durk had booked two one-way flights to Dubai and Switzerland simply hours earlier than his apprehension. FBI officers later discovered Lil Durk had additionally booked a non-public airplane to flee to Italy.
Lil Durk faces a single rely of murder-for-hire. The cost stems from the August 2022 homicide of Saviay’a Robinson, a cousin of fellow rapper Quando Rondo. Robinson was fatally shot at a West Hollywood fuel station and authorities allege Lil Durk supplied cash and “profitable music alternatives” to anybody keen to kill Quando Rondo. However fairly than hit the alleged goal, they killed Robinson as a substitute. Prosecutors have introduced proof suggesting the plot was a retaliatory transfer to avenge King Von’s homicide.
Lil Durk’s co-defendants face a spread of federal fees, together with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire involving loss of life and use of a machine gun in a violent crime leading to loss of life. If convicted, each Lil Durk and his OTF associates might face extreme penalties, together with life imprisonment or probably the loss of life penalty. Durk shall be arraigned at a later date.
