Lil Durk Arrested Without Bond in Florida for Murder-for-Hire Plot

Rapper Lil Durk is one of the most prominent sounds in the drill music scene. Unfortunately, fans are now more concerned about his October 2024 arrest.

On Oct. 24, 2024, Lil Durk, real name Durk Banks, was arrested in Florida for his alleged connection to a murder-for-hire plot. Here's everything we know.

On Oct. 24, Lil Durk was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals and was booked into the Broward County Jail. According to TMZ, he was charged with being involved in a murder-for-hire. The arrest came after several members of Chicago's Only The Family (OTF) crew were arrested the same day for the murder of rapper Quando Rondo's cousin, Saviay’a Robinson. Robinson was killed during an August 2022 shoot out at a Los Angeles, Calif. gas station.

Durk will remain in jail until he has his day in court. He is being held without bond in Broward County and, according to jail records obtained by The Sun, is pending transfer to the U.S. Marshals Office. However, Durk's lawyers, Brian Bieber and Alek Ubieta, stated that he will have his first court case on Friday, Oct. 25.

Lil Durk's murder-for-hire arrest doesn't mean he murdered Quando Rondo's cousin himself. As SBBL Law states, murder-for-hire is "a federal crime to hire a person to murder someone (i.e., pay or promise to pay something of pecuniary value) when doing so affects interstate or foreign commerce."

In Lil Durk's case, he allegedly conspired with fellow OTF members Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey, and Asa Houston to kill Quando Rondo in exchange for money and music opportunities. Quando Rondo survived the shooting that ultimately killed his cousin, though he suffered injuries. Prosecutors have believed the plot to have been revenge against Quando Rondo in his connection to King Von's death in 2020. King Von was Lil Durk's friend and protege.