Sean Kingston‘s mother has been arrested and charged with fraud following a raid on the singer’s Dania Beach, FL home.
NBC Miami was on the scene on Thursday (May 23), when 61-year-old Janice Turner was arrested by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and the Davie Police SWAT.
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Turner, who has a history of convictions for filing false loan applications and bank fraud, was charged with numerous fraud and theft charges.
Video of the arrest can be seen below.
JUST IN: Sean Kingston's mother was arrested during a raid of a Florida mansion rented by the singer, NBC 6 South Florida reports.
Kingston’s mother was taken into custody on numerous fraud and theft charges.pic.twitter.com/BSFv8nYoXc
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Attorney Dennis Card, who represents one of Sean Kingston’s alleged victims, said that Turner’s arrest is part and parcel of a larger crime involving the “Beautiful Girls” singer. Thursday’s raid was done in connection with a lawsuit he filed against Kingston for not paying for purchased items.
“He likes having bling, he likes showing off, he’s a showman,” Card said to the outlet. “My client has a $150,000 television sound system that’s in there, there’s also about $1 million worth of watches that are in there, there’s a $80,000 custom bed that was ordered. This is an organized systematic fraud.”
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Card continued: “He’s got basically a script, he says that he works with Justin Bieber, and that he obviously puts on a big show here, this is a rental house, he doesn’t own it, and he lures people using his celebrity into having them release things without him paying for it and then he simply never pays.
“He’s 100 percent a scammer, he’s on felony probation right now for trafficking in stolen property, he’s got judgements against him for procuring more than $1 million in watches without paying for them. This is just an ongoing pattern for Sean.”
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As of this writing, Sean Kingston has not been charged with any crime related to the alleged fraud.
But back in November, watch company Dream Watch petitioned a court to award them $1,054,107.50 for two unpaid watches: a Richard Mille Model RM 65.01 Automatic and a Patek Phillipe Calibre.
The company claimed that Kingston reached out to them in 2022 to purchase the two watches, and a representative from the company flew from Malaysia to Los Angeles to furnish the singer with the watches.
However, Sean Kingston reportedly never came through with the promised funds, even though he promised to compensate them via wire transfer.
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“Kingston represented his initial wire attempt was rejected because it was flagged by his bank due to the large amount being wired overseas,” read the suit. “Thereafter, Kingston represented his account was frozen due to the initial wire attempt, amongst other excuses which persisted for over three months until Kingston stopped responding to Plaintiff entirely.
“Ultimately, the agreed upon funds were never sent, and Defendants continue to refuse to render payment as agreed. Defendant Kingston continues to possess the two watches.”
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Dream Watches wants the judgment rendered in its favor because Sean Kingston reportedly never responded to the company’s many requests for payment, and he didn’t allegedly respond to the service of process of the papers either.
