On Tuesday (Might 20), Florida rapper and singer Rod Wave was arrested in Georgia on 14 expenses, together with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm, in response to jail data considered by Pitchfork. Wave, whose actual title is Rodarius Marcell Inexperienced, was additionally booked into Fulton County Jail for aiming a pistol at one other particular person, reckless conduct, prison injury 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, reviews 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 situated, in response to police.
“There isn’t any fact to those expenses,” Rod Wave’s attorneys, Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg, advised 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 previously 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 primarily based on inaccurate data,” reviews 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, house till she couldn’t breathe. In accordance with the arrest warrant, Wave additionally claimed she was “speaking to different males whereas they have been broke up.” That case was later dropped and Wave’s lawyer, Bradford M. Cohen, advised Pitchfork that the incident was “a misunderstanding between a Girlfriend and Boyfriend.”
