Popular Chicago rapper Lil Durk is behind bars at the Broward County Jail on federal murder-for-hire charges.

The 32-year-old, whose legal name is Durk Banks, faces two counts of conspiracy to commit murder on his own account resulting in death. He appeared in federal court in Miami on Friday, where his family declined to comment to NBC6.

Jail records show the rapper was arrested by US officials between late Thursday and early Friday morning as he tried to flee the country.

U.S. marshals and representatives for Lil Durk did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.

Conformable Panelthe rapper’s collaborations with Drake on “Laugh Now Cry Later” and J. Cole on “All My Life” reached No. 2 on their charts. He won a Grammy for the former song for Best Melodic Rap Performance in 2024.

While details of the alleged murder-for-hire plot have not yet been made public, the arrest comes as five people with ties to his hip hop collective, Only the Family, have been arrested on a federal indictment in California , on charges of committing. a murder for hire resulting in death. According to the indictment, the men allegedly hit rapper Quando Rondo in retaliation for the shooting death of another Chicago rapper, King Von, who was part of OTF and collaborated with Lil Durk on music.

The grand jury indicts OTF members Kavon London Grant, known as “Cuz” or “Vonnie,” Deandre Dontrell Wilson, known as “DeDe,” Asa Houston, known as “Boogie,” and five unnamed conspirators, as well as Keith Jones, known as “Flacka” and David Brian Lindsey, known as “Browneyez”, who are described as “members of other Chicago gangs”.

Banks is the founder of OTF, which produces hip hop music from Chicago-area artists.

According to the indictment, on November 6, 2020, an OTF member described only as “DB” was in a “physical altercation with TBC at a nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia. During the struggle, an associate of TBC pulled out a gun and shot DB several times, killing him.” Although authorities did not name DB in the indictment, rapper King Von, whose real name was Dayvon Bennett, was killed on the same date, NBC News reported at the time. Another man, Mark Blakely, 34, was also killed in the shooting and four others were injured. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

After DB’s murder, someone described as “co-conspirator 1” used coded language to make it clear that he would “pay a reward or monetary reward and/or pay anyone who took part in TB’s murder for their role in his murder DB. “

Then, on August 18, 2022, after learning that TB was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey, Houston, Grant and co-conspirator 2 traveled to California from Illinois to “follow, track and attempt to kill TB by gunfire – including with a fully automatic firearm”.

The men followed TB’s black Escalade to a gas station on Beverly Boulevard and fired several rounds into the SUV — killing SR, a passenger in TB’s vehicle, documents state.

The indictment for the five men charges conspiracy and use of interstate facilities to commit a crime for hire resulting in death, use of the port and discharge of firearms and machine guns, possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crimes of violence resulting in death, possession of a machine gun and criminal forfeiture.

The documents said Wilson paid the reward to the co-conspirators.

It was not immediately clear if the men had retained lawyers.