Sean Kingston has been arrested just hours after authorities raided his Florida home. The rapper joined his mother in lockup as officers took her into custody earlier in the day during the raid. The mother-son pair are part of a criminal investigation involving fraud and theft charges. Footage of Kingston’s arrest has been released, and it seems he didn’t know what was coming his way.
Cops arrested Kingston on Thursday afternoon, around 4 PM, in a different state from his mother. The Jamaican native was in Fort Irwin, California, performing at a military base, when authorities came for him. In footage obtained by TMZ, a federal agent wearing a bulletproof vest escorted Kingston from the tent backstage to an RV. The 34-year-old clearly didn’t resist arrest and surrendered peacefully. The officer didn’t even cuff him during the arrest. They took him into custody on fraud and theft charges, just like his mother.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office confirmed the peaceful arrest via a statement, “This evening, police in Fort Irwin, Calif., arrested Kisean Anderson, aka Sean Kingston, without incident on a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest warrant for numerous fraud and theft charges.” Kingston is at San Bernardino County Jail and will remain there over the weekend. He will attend an extradition hearing on Tuesday, after which authorities will transfer to Broward County to face the charges against him.
Sean Kingston Addresses Trouble With The Law
Earlier in the day, a police SWAT team, alongside detectives and deputies, stormed Kingston’s Florida home. They reportedly took apart a giant LED TV and arrested his mom, Janice Turner, during the raid. At the time, the rapper wasn’t on the scene. Following the raid, Kingston wasted no time releasing a statement about what went down.
“People love negative energy! I am good and so is my mother! โฆ my lawyers are handling everything as we speak.”
Sean Kingston.
Reports link Kingston’s arrest to a February lawsuit. A company, Ver Ver Entertainment, sued the artist for failing to pay $150,000 for the sale and installation of a 232-inch TV. An attorney for the company, Dennis Card, addressed the raid, saying, “A detective in Broward County read my lawsuit and contacted me, and so we went down and gave, with my client, a recorded statement and an affidavit. So weโve been waiting on this raid for more than two months now.”
