A choose set $160,000 bond for Sean Kingston’s mom, Janice Turner, who spent the evening within the Broward County Jail.
Authorities arrested Turner throughout a raid at Kingston’s rental property in Southwest Ranches, Florida on Thursday.
Turner, 61, is charged with fraud and theft. She was nonetheless within the Broward County Jail as of Friday night.
Sean Kingston is in a California jail awaiting extradition to South Florida. Kingston will spend Memorial Day weekend within the San Bernardino County Detention Heart.
SWAT groups and dozens of deputies with the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace served search warrants at Kingston’s rental house close to Ft. Lauderdale.
The raid was in reference to a $150,000 stolen items case, based on the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Authorities say the rapper and his mom stole greater than $1 million by means of an organized scheme of fraud and deception.
In keeping with the warrants, Kingston, his mom and others stole money, jewellery, a Cadillac Escalade, furnishings and a excessive finish house theater in current months.
The paperwork state a Cadillac Escalade valued at $159,701.49 was fraudulently obtained from an unique automobile dealership.
Kingston faces 10 expenses, together with organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, identification theft, and legal use of private identification info.
Florida Division of Corrections data present Kingston is at the moment on two years’ probation for trafficking stolen property.
Kingston, 34, was arrested throughout a live performance at Fort Irwin, an Military base in California’s Mojave Desert on Thursday.
Kingston was unbothered in a submit on his Instagram Tales previous to his arrest.
“Individuals love unfavourable power! I’m good and so is my mom! My legal professionals are dealing with every part as we communicate,” he wrote.
Robert Rosenblatt, an lawyer for the Kingstons, stated on Friday that Sean Kingston would return to Florida voluntarily if he wasn’t locked up in California.
Rosenblatt added that permitting Kingston to bond out of jail and journey to Florida at his personal expense would save taxpayers “the expense of extradition and the prices of journey for the detectives and Sean.”
“We stay up for addressing these (expenses) in courtroom and are assured of a profitable decision for Sean and his mom,” Rosenblatt stated.
Kingston had a No. 1 hit with “Lovely Women” in 2007. The music video for “Lovely Women” was seen over 1.2 billion occasions on YouTube (watch under).