Rod Wave's Attorneys Say Rapper Is Victim of a Burglary After Arrest on Assault Charges
Rodarius Marcell 'Rod Wave' Green, December 2024 (Prince Williams/WireImage)
On Tuesday (May 20), Florida rapper and singer Rod Wave was arrested in Georgia on 14 charges, including aggravated assault and possession of a firearm, according to jail records viewed by Pitchfork. Wave, whose real name is Rodarius Marcell Green, was also booked into Fulton County Jail for aiming a pistol at another person, reckless conduct, criminal damage to property, obstruction of law enforcement, evidence tampering, conspiracy to commit a felony, and simple assault. He posted a $50,000 bond that same day and was released.
Wave's arrest stemmed from an alleged April 21 altercation. Allegedly, the 'Sinners' rapper and his realtors returned to his residence following a burglary, and police claim that's where Wave and his associates got into a verbal argument where a semiautomatic pistol was fired 14 times, reports TMZ. Of those shots, 11 rounds hit an associate's 2025 Mercedes G Wagon, one bullet struck Wave's own 2022 Rolls-Royce, one shot punctured the wall of Wave's residence, and the final round has not been located, according to police.
'There is no truth to these charges,' Rod Wave's attorneys, Drew Findling and Marissa Goldberg, told Pitchfork. 'Rod Green was a victim of a burglary and committed no crimes. How he was even charged as a result of this situation is incomprehensible. This will absolutely be resolved favorably to Mr. Green.'
Wave was previously arrested in April 2024 and charged with illegal possession of a weapon or ammo in Manatee County, Florida. Police tried to connect him to a gang-related shooting at a St. Petersburg sports bar, but he was later released for being 'detained based on inaccurate information,' reports Billboard.
In 2022, Wave was also arrested on a felony charge of battery by strangulation after being accused of choking his ex-girlfriend at her Osceola County, Florida, home until she couldn't breathe. According to the arrest warrant, Wave also claimed she was 'talking to other men while they were broke up.' That case was later dropped and Wave's lawyer, Bradford M. Cohen, told Pitchfork that the incident was 'a misunderstanding between a Girlfriend and Boyfriend.'
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