Lil Durk Arrest: How Much Time Is Rapper Facing If He's Found Guilty on Murder-for-Hire Charge?

Following Lil Durk's arrest in Florida this week, the rapper is facing serious federal charges.

Durk, who was also named in a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of late rapper FBG Duck, is being held without bail at the Federal Detention Center in Miami. With an arraignment in Los Angeles expected at a later date, the highly successful 32-year-old rapper Chicago rapper could face serious time behind bars.

What is Lil Durk being charged with?

Lil Durk was arrested on Thursday, October 24 on a murder-for-hire charge.

Several of his Only the Family (OTF) associates were also arrested on Thursday. Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey, and Asa Houston were hit with federal charges in California. They're facing more charges than Durk, including conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, committing murder-for-hire involving a death, and use of a machine gun in a violent crime resulting in death.

What are prosecutors saying Lil Durk did exactly?

Prosecutors have alleged that Lil Durk ordered a hit on a rival rapper in retaliation for the 2020 murder of King Von in Atlanta. The unsealed federal, which doesn't specifically name the rival rapper, states that he ordered five of his OTF associates to kill who many believe to be Quando Rondo in a shooting in Los Angeles in August 2022, which resulted in the death of the rapper's cousin, Saviay'a Robinson.

Durk has been accused of being the mastermind behind the plot and providing funds for ski masks, rental cars, and hotel rooms used in the attempted hit on Quando Rondo's life. Records from his cellphone show that he reportedly texted one of the OTF associates arrested, "Don't book no flights under no names involved wit me." His credit cards are believed to have been linked to flights booked by the defendants.

Additionally, prosecutors have claimed that Durk booked a private jet to Italy after his associates were arrested. He was apprehended just an hour before the flight was scheduled.

How much time can Lil Durk get for a murder-for-hire charge?

If convicted, Lil Durk could spend some serious time behind bars. The sentence for the federal charge varies depending on the severity of the alleged criminal activity. Per the U.S. Department of Justice criminal resource manual, the penalty is ten years and a fine for any violation, twenty years and a fine if the murder-for-hire plot results in injury, and life imprisonment or the death penalty and a $250,000 if someone is killed in the plot.

According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California, "Banks and the five defendants charged in the separate indictment each would face a statutory maximum sentence of life in federal prison" if they are found guilty.

“Cases like these that span multiple states and jurisdictions are complicated and can oftentimes only be resolved through the collaboration of multiple departments,” Los Angeles Police Chief Dominic Choi said in a statement. “This arrest is the culmination of the combined efforts of our partners in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI, and LAPD’s Operation West Bureau Homicide detectives who discovered that Durk D a.k.a. Lil Durk was involved in this heinous murder. The hundreds of hours spent on the investigation included surveillance, authoring numerous search warrants, using forensic technology, and tireless investigative travel and collaboration alongside our federal partners led to this arrest."