Lil Durk allegedly lost phone days before arrest on murder-for-hire charges

Rapper Lil Durk, aka, was arrested on October 24 on murder-for-hire charges and placed in federal detention in Florida. New details have emerged, with an October 27 report from Hot New Hip Hop alleging that the rapper lost his phone just one week prior to his arrest.

The same source reported that Durk had mentioned losing his phones on his Instagram Story shortly before his arrest. This was about one week before NBC Chicago, on October 25, revealed through recent documents that Durk was arrested just an hour before he was set to depart the country on Thursday, October 24, for a trip to Italy.

Following this, Durk was detained by U.S. Marshals on "murder for hire" charges. The federal indictment released on October 25 specified that Durk and five other alleged co-conspirators faced charges, including:
"...One count of conspiracy, one count of use of interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire resulting in death, and one count of using, carrying and discharging firearms and a machine gun and possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death."

A week after allegedly losing all his phones, Lil Durk reportedly intended to leave the country to avoid being apprehended, according to an October 25 report by The Chicago Tribune. The source stated that police detained the rapper “in the vicinity of the departing airport” approximately one hour before his flight.

At the time, Lil Durk was in Ft. Lauderdale and had made two separate international travel reservations to Dubai and Switzerland—one from Fort Lauderdale to Switzerland and another from Miami to Dubai. However, neither flight was taken.

According to the federal complaint, all of this unfolded before the rapper’s arrest, which was connected to a 2022 shooting in Los Angeles targeting fellow rapper Quando Rondo. Reports indicated that Durk's associate, singer King Von, was killed by one of Quando's associates, Lul Timm.