Sean Kingston Will Be Extradited to Florida on Fraud Charges
Sean Kingston.Sean Kingston was arrested in California on Thursday, May 23, hours after police raided his Florida home that same day. Read on for the latest on his extradition.
Arrests in Florida and California
May 24, 2024: Sean Kingston was arrested in California a day after his Florida home was raided, “Page Six” reports. Police took Kingston, born Kisean Paul Anderson, into custody near Fort Irwin, an army base 150 miles from Los Angeles, before he was booked into a San Bernardino, California, jail, according to Broward County Sheriff’s Office. The “Beautiful Girls” singer had a warrant out for his arrest for multiple fraud and theft charges ahead of the booking. During the Florida raid, police took Kingston’s mother, Janice Turner, into custody over the same charges. “People love negative energy!,” Kingston wrote in an Instagram story following the incident, adding: “my lawyers are handling everything as we speak 🙏🏽🙏🏽.” Robert Rosenblatt, an attorney for Kingston and his mother, all but denied the claims. “These are fine people, and I’d be surprised if the allegations were true,” he told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
The criminal case reportedly stems from his legal dispute with Ver Ver Entertainment, which sued the late-aughts musician for an unpaid sale and installation of a 232-inch television worth about $150,000, allegedly telling the company that he and Justin Bieber would do social-media advertising if they lowered the down payment and gave him credit, per the Sentinel. An attorney for the company alleged that Kingston’s business dealings amount to “a sales pitch that he goes through to defraud people,” Dennis Card said in a May 23 interview. He claimed the singer convinces people to give him expensive things, amounting to “organized, systemic fraud.”
Kingston isn’t fighting extradition
May 29, 2024: The Associated Press is reporting that Sean Kingston has waived his right to fight extradition. He will be transported to Florida, where he and his mother are charged with $1 million+ worth of fraud. Kingston did not make a public court appearance, but signed papers Tuesday afternoon.
His mother pleaded guilty of bank fraud in 2007, and served almost 1.5 years in prison, per federal court records. Kingston was also already on probation for trafficking stolen property.
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