Sean Kingston, the recording artist recognized for his hit songs “Stunning Women” and “Take You There,” was sentenced on Friday to a few and a half years in federal jail after being convicted of a $1 million fraud scheme. The sentencing, which passed off in South Florida, noticed Kingston, whose authorized identify is Kisean Paul Anderson, instantly taken into custody.

Kingston, 35, and his mom, Janice Eleanor Turner, had been each discovered responsible by a federal jury in March of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 4 counts of wire fraud. U.S. Choose David Leibowitz, who handed down Kingston’s sentence, had beforehand sentenced Turner to 5 years in jail final month.

Following his jail time period, Kingston will likely be positioned on three years of supervised launch. Choose Leibowitz additionally ordered {that a} restitution listening to be held inside 90 days to find out what he owes his victims.

The convictions stem from a collection of occasions that led to the arrests of Kingston and his mom in Might 2024. A SWAT workforce raided Kingston’s rented mansion in Fort Lauderdale, the place Turner was taken into custody. Kingston himself was arrested at Fort Irwin, an Military coaching base in California’s Mojave Desert, the place he was performing.

Born in Florida and raised in Jamaica, Sean Kingston rose to worldwide fame at age 17 along with his 2007 hit “Stunning Women,” which famously sampled Ben E. King’s 1961 track “Stand By Me.”