LOS ANGELES – Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk was charged Friday in a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court for his involvement in a murder plot that killed a man in a botched ambush near the Beverly Center in 2022.

The 32-year-old Chicago rapper, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, was charged with conspiracy to use interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire resulting in death. Five alleged members of Banks’ Chicago-based “rap collective” are charged separately in the case.

According to jail records, the rapper was arrested Thursday in Broward County, Florida. He was not given bail. He is also being held by the U.S. Marshals Office, records show.

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Banks is accused of ordering the killing of Tyquian Bowman, a Georgia rapper named Quando Rondo, whose cousin was killed in a botched ambush near the mall two years ago. Five alleged members of Banks’ rap collective were also charged.

FBI Special Agent Sarah Corcoran alleged in an affidavit filed Thursday that Banks placed a bounty on Bowman after an associate of Bowman murdered a close friend of Banks at a nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia, two years earlier.

Around August 18, 2022, the alleged conspirators learned that Bowman was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles. The next day, Banks’ five friends traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles “with the purpose of killing Bowman,” federal prosecutors allege.

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Multiple members and associates of the Banks collective — known as Only the Family or OTF — used two vehicles and worked together to track down, stalk and attempt to kill Bowman at a gas station, the affidavit said.

The co-conspirators fired at least 18 rounds at Bowman’s vehicle, striking and killing one of Bowman’s family members who was traveling with the intended target, the officer’s statement said.

On October 17, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned an indictment charging five alleged co-conspirators – Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston – with crimes arising from the murder, including murder. murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in death.

Banks was identified as co-conspirator number one in the indictment, the document said.

The rapper won a Grammy earlier this year for best melodic rap performance. His albums “The Voice” and “7220” both sold more than 1 million copies. A new Lil Durk album is expected to be released next month.

According to the FBI, the investigation shows that Banks ordered Bowman’s murder and ultimately paid for the alleged co-conspirators’ travel from Chicago to Los Angeles the day before the murder. Around the time the flights were purchased, records show that a phone number associated with Banks texted a co-conspirator: “Do not book flights without a name associated with me,” the affidavit said.

According to the FBI agent, Banks flew with Grant on a private jet from Miami to Los Angeles. Grant used Banks’ credit card to book a room at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, where the five-member alleged hitman team stayed the night before tracking down Bowman, according to the affidavit, which alleges Grant purchased ski masks for the gunmen to use commit the murder.

Banks, meanwhile, stayed in a rental home in Encino, the document said.

Earlier Thursday, federal and local law enforcement officers executed multiple search warrants at locations associated with OTF members in and around Chicago, arresting Grant, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston, Corcoran wrote.

After executing the arrest warrants, the FBI learned that Banks had been booked on at least three international flights leaving the United States on Thursday. When Banks arrived near one of the departing airports, he was arrested by law enforcement personnel.

It was not immediately clear when Banks and his co-defendants would make their first appearance in federal court in downtown Los Angeles.