Sean Kingston was released by police Wednesday (June 5) on $100,000 bail, according to documents obtained by Advertising sign and was first reported by TMZ.
The “Beautiful Girls” singer was able to use his mortgage as collateral. After being released, Kingston took to Instagram to share a post noting that it's “great to be home,” before thanking God, friends, family and his legal team. See the post here.
The news comes a week after Kingston was arrested in California and signed papers invoking his right to fight extradition to Florida. On Sunday (June 2), he was booked into the Broward County Jail, according to the Associated Press. Both the singer and his mother, 61-year-old Janice Turner, are accused of defrauding his home state of more than $1 million.
Kingston he was initially taken into custody on May 23 after performing at Fort Irwin, an Army training base in California's Mojave Desert. His mother, meanwhile, was arrested the same day when his rental mansion in Fort Lauderdale was raided by Broward County sheriff's deputies and the Davie police SWAT team. According NBC Newswarrants allege that between October and March, the pair stole nearly $500,000 in jewelry, more than $200,000 from Bank of America, $160,000 from an Escalade dealer, more than $100,000 from First Republic Bank and $86,000 from a manufacturer of custom beds.
The duo's attorney, Robert Rosenblatt, previously shared in response: “We look forward to dealing with these [charges] in court and are confident of a successful resolution for Sean and his mother.”
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