Rapper Lil Durk was arrested in Florida for murder-for-hire

Lil Durk was arrested in Florida for murder-for-hire.

TMZ broke the story … several members of the Chicago-based OTF crew – to which Durk has ties – were arraigned on Thursday with the murder of the rapper Quando RondoCousin.

Durk was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals Thursday evening and booked into the Broward County Jail. Authorities have not yet released details of his arrest.

However, Durk's lawyers have Brian Bieber And Alek Ubietaconfirmed that the hip-hop star was arrested by marshals, adding that he would make his first appearance in federal court in Miami, Florida on Friday.

As we reported Thursday, the government arrested five OTF members in connection with the August 2022 shooting in Los Angeles that killed Quando Rondo's cousin. All were charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.

Federal authorities say the crime was committed in retaliation for the rapper King Ofdied 4 years ago in Atlanta.

You may remember…in November 2020, King Von was fatally shot by a Quando employee Lul Timm during an argument. Timm was initially charged with murder, but the case was later dismissed.