Grammy Award winning rapper Durk Banks known by his stage name “Lil Durk” was arrested Friday on a federal criminal complaint alleging he conspired with others to murder a rival rapper, Quando Rondo resulting in a shooting and murder of Quando’s cousin that took place at a gas station near the Beverly Center shopping mall in Los Angeles in August 2022.
According to the FBI, officials were alerted by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection that Lil Durk, had been booked as a passenger on two international flights Thursday. One flight was from Miami to Dubai and another from Fort Lauderdale to Switzerland. Neither flight was boarded. He later booked a third flight on a private plane set to depart Miami for Italy, but he was arrested “in the vicinity of the departing airport” one hour before takeoff.