FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston was booked into the Broward County Jail Sunday, 10 days after his arrest in Southern California on criminal charges that accuse him and his mother of stealing money, jewelry, a Cadillac Escalade and furniture as part of an organized scheme. Kingston, whose legal name is Kisean Anderson, was arrested May 23 at Fort Irwin, an Army training base in California’s Mojave Desert where he was performing.
He waived his right to fight extradition in a California court and agreed last week to be turned over to authorities in Florida, . The same day he was arrested, that he and his mother, 61-year-old Janice Turner, rent in Fort Lauderdale. Kingston, 34, hasn’t had a major label release in more than a decade.
In 2007 the Jamaican-American rapper recorded “Beautiful Girls,” . He has had 14 songs crack the Hot 100 chart, including “Eenie Meenie,” a collaboration with Justin Bieber that reached No. 15 in 2010 and remained in the Hot 100 for 18 weeks.
Kingston and Turner have been charged with conducting an organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, identity theft and related crimes, according to arrest warrants released by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, cited by . The day of the raid, reporters outside the mansion watched authorities fill a loading van with goods. The mansion was surrounded by expensive sports cars.
The raid was triggered by a lawsuit between Ver Ver Entertainment and Kingston that was filed in Feb.