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 accordance with jail information 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 particular person, reckless conduct, felony injury to property, obstruction of legislation 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 obtained right into a verbal argument the place a semiautomatic pistol was fired 14 occasions, 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 accordance with police.
“There isn’t a fact to those expenses,” Rod Wave’s attorneys, Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg, informed Pitchfork. “Rod Inexperienced was a sufferer of a housebreaking and dedicated no crimes. How he was even charged on account 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 capturing at a St. Petersburg sports activities bar, however he was later launched for being “detained primarily based 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, house till she couldn’t breathe. In response to 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, informed Pitchfork that the incident was “a misunderstanding between a Girlfriend and Boyfriend.”
