Distinctive-looking “Island Boys” rapper Franky Venegas has been arrested on gun and drug expenses following a site visitors cease in Florida.
The 23-year-old — who skyrocketed to viral infamy together with his twin brother, Alex, in 2021 with the music “I’m an Island Boy” — was discovered with a stash of prescription capsules and an unregistered handgun on Sunday evening, in response to a police report from the Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace.
He grimaced by way of his grill-covered tooth in his mug shot that additionally confirmed his unmistakable tattooed face and wild coiffure trying like a palm tree with six thick branches.
Venegas was a passenger in a yellow Corvette when the 25-year-old feminine driver was pulled over for failing to cease, in response to the sheriff’s report.
A K9 unit searched the automotive and located beneath the passenger seat a plastic dishevelled stuffed with white capsules, which have been later decided to be oxycodone, the police report stated.
Venagas initially informed police that the capsules weren’t his and he didn’t understand how they received there — then later stated he had prescription for oxycodone, however couldn’t present any proof, police stated.
Police additionally found a designer MCM Worldwide purse beneath the seat containing a Glock that had been spray-painted blue and had the serial numbers lacking, in response to the report.
He was arrested and booked on the Naples Jail Middle on expenses of possession of a managed harmful substance and not using a prescription and possession of an altered firearm.
Venegas, additionally identified by his stage title Kodiyakredd, and his twin brother, who goes by Flyysoulja, are web well-known for his or her distinctive seems as a lot as for his or her music.
They every have tattoos masking their our bodies and faces, grills and distinctive, spiky hairdos — as seen in Franky Venegas’ mugshot.
He bonded out of jail on Monday and is scheduled to seem in court docket subsequent on March 17, in response to jail information.
Venegas was beforehand arrested in Fort Lauderdale in Could 2024 when he pretended to be his brother when he was pulled over for reckless driving, in response to WPLG.
A 12 months earlier he was arrested in Broward County for allegedly beating his live-in girlfriend — however the misdemeanor expenses have been later dropped.
