According to Chicago Tribune, Lil Durk was supposed to fly to Italy on a private jet. However, he was arrested in Florida on Thursday for an alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
As we previously reported, the rapper was accused in the complaint of hiring five associates to kill Georgia rapper Quando Rondo, whose real name is Tyquian Terrel Bowman. This was allegedly in revenge for the 2020 murder of Chicago rapper King Von. The complaint stated that Durk offered money for Bowman’s killing.
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Durk’s associates were arrested in Chicago early Thursday morning, and several search warrants were executed. At that time, Banks was in Ft. Lauderdale, where he had booked separate flights to Dubai and Switzerland but did not board either plane, according to the criminal complaint. Instead, the complaint claims that the FBI found out around 6:40 p.m. Florida time that Durk had booked a private jet to Italy, which was set to leave at 9 p.m.
Federal agents arrested Banks about an hour before his flight while he was heading to the airport in Miami, according to the complaint.
He was held in the Broward County Jail until Friday morning, when he was moved to the custody of U.S. marshals, as reported by a county representative.
He had his first court appearance on Friday afternoon before a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Miami. He waived his right to an identity hearing and agreed to stay in custody until U.S. marshals transport him to Los Angeles, where he will be arraigned later, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The lawyer who represented Banks did not respond to calls for comments, and his attorney from Chicago could not be reached.
In the charging documents, federal investigators also stated that “witnesses and/or their family members have already received threats and/or have been contacted in what appear to be attempts to influence their participation in this investigation.”