On Sunday, Sean Kingston was transferred from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division and is being extradited to Florida, the place he’s accused of committing greater than $1 million in fraud and theft alongside his mom, Janice Turner.
On Tuesday, Could 28, the 34-year-old singer had an extradition listening to in San Bernardino Superior Courtroom and agreed to be transported to Broward County, the place he and his mother are dealing with fees of conducting an organized scheme to defraud, grand theft and identification theft, arrest warrants issued by native police state.
In response to the Related Press, Kingston — whose actual identify is Kisean Paul Anderson — was not in courtroom however signed papers agreeing to the extradition.
ET reached out to Kingston’s authorized workforce for remark. The investigation is ongoing.
Kingston was arrested on Could 23 at Fort Irwin within the Mojave Desert, an Military base he was acting at. Turner, 61, was arrested the identical day on the singer’s residence in Florida, the place SWAT executed a raid. Cops have alleged the pair stole a Cadillac Escalade and jewellery, amongst different objects.
On the time of their arrests, Turner was booked on eight fees of fraud and theft, legislation enforcement confirmed to ET.
Following the raid of the Fort Lauderdale residence the place Kingston lives, the “Lovely Women” singer took to his Instagram Story to guarantee followers that he was “good” and his attorneys had been “dealing with all the things.” That assertion got here shortly earlier than his personal arrest.
“Folks love unfavorable power,” he wrote on the time. “I’m good and so is my mom! My attorneys are dealing with all the things as we converse.”
The raid got here greater than two months after Ver Ver Leisure sued the Jamaican-Amercian singer in Broward County, claiming Kingston entered right into a contract in 2023 for the sale and set up of a colossal 232-inch TV, coupled with a sturdy sound system, at his Florida residence.
In response to courtroom paperwork obtained by ET, Kingston is alleged to have overrated his relationship with Justin Bieber and, in an effort “to induce [Ver Ver Entertainment] to simply accept a a lot decrease down cost and credit score in the direction of the acquisition value, [Kingston] promised [Ver Ver Entertainment] that he would produce promotional movies of [his] company with Mr. Bieber.
The corporate claims Kingston wired the corporate $30,000 to begin making the tv and that after the set up in December, he by no means accomplished the cost for the remaining steadiness.
Ver Ver Leisure claims Kingston “by no means had any intention of paying [Ver Ver Entertainment] in full for its Colossal TV and sound system.”
On the time of his arrest final week, Kingston was already serving two years of probation for trafficking stolen property, AP studies. Turner beforehand pleaded responsible to financial institution fraud for stealing $160,000. She served greater than a yr in jail, federal courtroom information state.
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