Rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced on Friday in Fort Lauderdale to three and a half years in federal prison after a jury earlier this year found him guilty of defrauding luxury-goods sellers of more than $1 million. U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz also ordered three years of supervised release and scheduled a restitution hearing for Oct. 16. A bid by Kingston’s lawyer for delayed self-surrender was rejected, and the 35-year-old performer was taken into custody immediately. Prosecutors showed that between April 2023 and March 2024 Kingston and his mother, Janice Eleanor Turner, sent sellers bogus wire-transfer receipts to obtain high-end merchandise, including a bulletproof Cadillac Escalade, a 232-inch LED television and designer watches. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Anton called Kingston “a thief through and through,” while the artist apologized in court, saying he had “learned from [his] actions.” Turner, 63, was sentenced in July to five years in prison on the same counts—conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four substantive wire-fraud charges. Both mother and son were arrested in May 2024 after a SWAT raid on Kingston’s rented mansion in suburban Fort Lauderdale; Kingston was detained the same day at Fort Irwin, an Army base in California’s Mojave Desert. Kingston rose to fame at 17 with the 2007 hit “Beautiful Girls” and has since released several albums and collaborations. The sentencing caps a legal saga that began with multiple civil complaints and culminated in a March verdict that now leaves the performer facing prison time as well as potential restitution to more than 20 victims.