Lil Durk Pleads Not Guilty To Murder-For-Hire Charges During Court Appearance In California • Hollywood Unlocked

Lil Durk has reportedly pleaded not guilty to murder-for-hire charges during his court hearing in Los Angeles on Thursday. This comes three weeks after his shocking arrest in Miami. 

As we previously reported, Lil Durk 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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As we all know, the Chicago rapper has been held without bond at a federal detention center in Florida since October 24, when he was arrested while heading to a Miami-area airport. The charges claim that Banks had booked three different international flights and was planning to take a private jet to Italy when he was put in handcuffs. 

Durk’s associates were arrested in Chicago, 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 Durk about an hour before his flight while he was heading to the airport in Miami, according to the complaint.

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He was held in the Broward County Jail and then he was moved to the custody of U.S. marshals, as reported by a county representative.

He had his first court appearance in front of 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.

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.”