Sean Kingston Booked into Florida Jail and Being Held on $100K Bond Ahead of Hearing

A Broward County judge has set a $100,000 bond for Sean Kingston after he was locked up over the weekend for facing 10 fraud and theft charges, CBS News reports.

According to the outlet, the “Beautiful Girls” singer had a bond hearing on Monday, June 3, where a judge laid out all of his criminal charges — which include one count of organized scheme to defraud over 50,000, four counts of criminal use of personal identification information, one count of grand theft greater than $20,000, two counts of grand theft greater than $100,000 and one count of fraud.

Kingston (real name Kisean Anderson), 34, was also charged with violating his probation for a two-year sentence for trafficking stolen property, multiple outlets report. Local 10 was first to report the singer’s latest legal troubles.

Kingston was first arrested on the same charges in California on May 23, just hours after his mother, Janice Turner, was taken into custody at his rented Florida mansion on her own numerous fraud and theft charges, PEOPLE confirmed. He was later extradited from the state. 

Reps for Kingston did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on the lawsuit, though his attorney Robert Rosenblatt told the Associated Press that they “are confident of a successful resolution.”

According to arrest warrants released by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and obtained by PEOPLE last month, Kingston and his mother, 61, are charged with allegedly ripping off a jeweler, a car dealer and several other businesses for hundreds of thousands. Documents claim that the “Take You There” singer stole nearly $500,000 in jewelry, $160,000 from an Escalade dealer, $86,000 from the maker of customized beds and more, which prompted authorities to raid a Southwest Ranches residence on May 23 following an active and ongoing investigation.

An arrest warrant for Kingston was issued in Florida earlier that day, the Sheriff’s Office confirmed to PEOPLE. At the time, he was out of the state for a performance in California but was arrested later that day.

“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,” the Broward Sheriff’s Office confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement. “According to investigators, he will be booked into jail in San Bernardino, Calif.”

Prior to his May 23 arrest, Kingston shared a message on his Instagram Stories that same day, writing, “People love negative energy! I am good and so is my mother!” 

He added, “My lawyers are handling everything as we speak.”

The raid that resulted in Kingston and Turner’s arrests was triggered by a February lawsuit filed against the singer by an attorney representing Ver Ver Entertainment. The suit claims the singer has allegedly not paid for purchased items from the company.

According to the court complaint obtained by PEOPLE, Kingston allegedly presented “numerous false representations” to the company, claiming that he had a “current and ongoing working relationship” with Justin Bieber. The two last put out a single, “Eenie Meenie,” in 2010.

The lawsuit also alleged that Kingston breached his contract with Ver Ver Entertainment by failing to pay them as agreed after multiple attempts to collect payment. According to the company, a judgment was entered against him in another case in 2015 after he obtained $356,000 in watches without paying for them. Additional judgments were entered in 2016 and 2022 when the “Fire Burning” singer allegedly acquired $301,500 in jewelry and luxury watches worth over $1 million without payment.

“I filed a lawsuit against Sean Kingston,” attorney Dennis Card, who represents Ver Ver Entertainment, told PEOPLE during the raid on Kingston’s rented residence. “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.”

The lawyer added that he and his client had “been waiting on this raid for more than two months.”