NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — A member of the “Island Boys” rap group was arrested in Naples Sunday after deputies stated they caught him with a bag of unprescribed oxycodone tablets and an altered firearm.
Franky Venegas, 23, was booked right into a Collier County jail Sunday on one rely of possession of a managed substance with out a prescription and one rely of possession of an altered firearm, in line with public data.
An arrest report obtained by NBC affiliate WESH acknowledged that Venegas was the passenger in a corvette that deputies pulled over after observing the motive force fail to return to a whole cease on Oil Effectively Highway.
A K9 unit was known as to the scene, and Venegas and the motive force had been requested to step out of the corvette whereas regulation enforcement searched the car.
Deputies stated they discovered a plastic bag mendacity on the passenger facet floorboard. Inside was a number of white tablets. There have been seven whole 10 mg oxycodone tablets and 5 tablets containing oxycodone and Acetaminophen, in line with officers.
When questioned, Venegas informed deputies the tablets weren’t his and he didn’t understand how they acquired there.
Deputies continued looking out the corvette and got here throughout a brown purse on the passenger facet floorboard. Authorities stated there was a pistol contained in the bag, together with a transparent plastic reduce straw that had a white powdery substance on it.
Based on the arrest report, the pistol had been spray-painted blue and when investigators took the weapon aside, they found that each serial numbers had been lacking.
Venegas was arrested and brought to the Naples Jail Heart, WESH reported.
He and his twin brother, Alex, rose to fame because the “Island Boys” following their 2021 viral hit, “I am an Island Boy,” which has over 24 million views on YouTube.
Public data present that Venegas has a historical past of arrests in South Florida. He most lately acquired into bother in Could 2024 when he was accused of pretending to be his brother and was arrested in Fort Lauderdale for reckless driving.
