On Tuesday (Might 20), Florida rapper and singer Rod Wave was arrested in Georgia on 14 fees, together with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm, in keeping with jail data seen by Pitchfork. Wave, whose actual title is Rodarius Marcell Inexperienced, was additionally booked into Fulton County Jail for aiming a pistol at one other individual, reckless conduct, felony harm to property, obstruction of regulation enforcement, proof tampering, conspiracy to commit a felony, and easy assault. He posted a $50,000 bond that very same day and was launched.
Wave’s arrest stemmed from an alleged April 21 altercation. Allegedly, the “Sinners” rapper and his realtors returned to his residence following a housebreaking, and police declare that’s the place Wave and his associates bought right into a verbal argument the place a semiautomatic pistol was fired 14 instances, stories TMZ. Of these photographs, 11 rounds hit an affiliate’s 2025 Mercedes G Wagon, one bullet struck Wave’s personal 2022 Rolls-Royce, one shot punctured the wall of Wave’s residence, and the ultimate spherical has not been positioned, in keeping with police.
“There is no such thing as a reality to those fees,” Rod Wave’s attorneys, Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg, instructed Pitchfork. “Rod Inexperienced was a sufferer of a housebreaking and dedicated no crimes. How he was even charged because of this example is meaningless. This may completely be resolved favorably to Mr. Inexperienced.”
Wave was beforehand arrested in April 2024 and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon or ammo in Manatee County, Florida. Police tried to attach him to a gang-related taking pictures at a St. Petersburg sports activities bar, however he was later launched for being “detained based mostly on inaccurate data,” stories Billboard.
In 2022, Wave was additionally arrested on a felony cost of battery by strangulation after being accused of choking his ex-girlfriend at her Osceola County, Florida, dwelling till she couldn’t breathe. In line with the arrest warrant, Wave additionally claimed she was “speaking to different males whereas they had been broke up.” That case was later dropped and Wave’s lawyer, Bradford M. Cohen, instructed Pitchfork that the incident was “a misunderstanding between a Girlfriend and Boyfriend.”
