Rapper Sean Kingston was arrested during his concert on a California Army base Thursday while SWAT raided his Florida mansion, taking his mother into custody, earlier in the day.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Kingston was arrested without incident for a Florida warrant on fraud and theft charges in the area of Fort Irwin, an Army base in the desert about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
“People love negative energy! I am good and so is my mother!” Kingston had written on his Instagram Stories Thursday afternoon prior to his arrest. “My lawyers are handling everything as we speak.”
The raid on the Florida home was triggered by a lawsuit between Ver Ver Entertainment and Kingston that was filed in February. The suit claims that the singer has not paid for purchased items from the company.
The suit also claims that Kingston promised to produce promotional videos with Bieber for the company to reduce his payments and credit toward the price of items he purchased from them. They found that the artist had “no ongoing working” relationship with Bieber.
The complaint alleges that Kingston breached his contract by failing to pay them as agreed after multiple attempts to collect payment in January. It also claims the singer “has a long history of engaging in fraudulent conduct.”
Ver Ver Entertainment claims that a judgment was entered against Kingston in 2015 after he obtained $356,000 in watches without paying for them. Additional judgments were entered in 2016 and 2022 when he allegedly acquired $301,500 in jewelry and luxury watches worth over $1 million without payment.
