Singer Sean Kingston was arrested in California on fraud and theft prices Thursday, a number of hours after a SWAT group raided his rented South Florida mansion and carted away a van load of things.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace stated Kingston was arrested with out incident on a Florida warrant within the space of Fort Irwin, an Military base within the desert about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles. He can be held in California pending extradition to Florida.
Earlier within the day, Broward detectives arrested his 61-year-old mom, Janice Turner, through the raid of the rapper’s 14,000-square foot house in Southwest Ranches, a well-off Fort Lauderdale suburb that’s house to many celebrities {and professional} athletes, together with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill.
Aerial footage from Chopper 6 confirmed Turner in handcuffs outdoors the home on Thursday, earlier than she was positioned behind a BSO cruiser.
An individual was handcuffed and positioned in a Broward County Sherriff’s automobile as a big legislation enforcement presence responded to the house in Southwest Ranches.
Broward County prosecutors referred all inquiries to the sheriff’s workplace, which has has declined to launch particular particulars about prices, citing an ongoing investigation. After the raid, reporters outdoors the house might see authorities filling a loading van with items. The mansion was surrounded by costly sports activities automobiles.
“Individuals love unfavourable vitality!” Kingston had posted on Instagram earlier Thursday. “I’m good, and so is my mom! … My attorneys are dealing with every thing as we converse.” The put up was later taken down.
Singer Sean Kingston was arrested in California on fraud and theft prices after authorities raided his South Florida mansion and arrested his mom. NBC6’s Kim Wynne reviews
Robert Rosenblatt, an lawyer representing the rapper and his mom, stated, “we’re conscious of among the allegations” being made in opposition to the 2.
“We look ahead to addressing these in courtroom and are assured of a profitable decision for Shawn and his mom,” Rosenblatt stated in an e mail.
Bother With the Regulation
Florida Division of Corrections information present Kingston is presently on two years’ probation for trafficking stolen property. The probation was handed down on October 2023 and was scheduled to finish on Oct. 1, 2025
Additional info on that conviction couldn’t be discovered.
In accordance with federal courtroom information, his mom pleaded responsible in 2006 to financial institution fraud for stealing over $160,000 and served practically 1.5 years in jail. She was booked into the Broward jail Thursday on $160,000 bond.
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Jail information present Turner faces eight prices, together with grand theft, fraud, organized scheme to defraud, and legal use of private identification info.
Turner appeared earlier than a choose on Friday morning, the place her lawyer argued for a decrease bond. However the choose upheld the $160,000 bond, and ordered Turner to give up her passport
Who’s Sean Kingston?
The 34-year-old Kingston, whose authorized identify is Kisean Anderson, was born in Miami.
The Jamaican-American rapper is finest recognized for his 2007 No. 1 single “Stunning Ladies”; one other hit, “Take You There”; and his collaboration with Justin Bieber on the track “Eenie Meenie.”
Kingston has launched singles lately however hasn’t had a significant label launch in additional than a decade.
In Could of 2011 he suffered near-fatal accidents in a private watercraft accident close to Miami Seashore.
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Kingston and a feminine passenger have been injured when their Sea Doo struck the bridge connecting Palm Island with the MacArthur Causeway.
Fraud Allegations
An lawyer who witnessed his mom’s arrest stated the detentions are partly associated to a lawsuit he filed in opposition to Kingston in February accusing him of defrauding a Florida firm that put in in his house a 232-inch tv — or roughly 17 ft by 9.5 ft.
“It’s superb what you will get away with if you’re a celeb,” lawyer Dennis Card advised The Related Press. “He creates this bigger than life, ‘I’m wealthy’ persona. His mom is a crucial part on this. He presents himself as a family-oriented man, ‘I’m taking good care of my mother,’ however she is aware of full effectively what’s going on.”
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Within the lawsuit, Ver Ver Leisure says Kingston contacted the corporate in September about buying the tv, bought underneath the model identify Colossal TV, and having it put in. The system prices $150,000.
Kingston allegedly advised the house owners that if they’d conform to a decrease down fee and provides him credit score, he and Bieber would do commercials for them.
In November, Kingston paid the corporate $30,000 and the TV was put in, the lawsuit says. No commercials or additional funds have been ever made regardless of quite a few guarantees, it contends.
In accordance with the lawsuit, Kingston now not has a working relationship with Bieber, who just lately dropped his longtime supervisor. No present contact info for Bieber was accessible.
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“He’s 100% not concerned on this,” Card stated of Bieber. “He had the misfortune of performing some work prior to now with Sean, and Sean drops his identify like loopy.”
