UPDATE: A Waterville District Court judge upped Sean Kingston's bail December 11, from $1,000 to $2,500, according to staff at Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta.

Kingston remained at the jail Wednesday afternoon following his court appearance, which was done by video from the jail.

The gun charge remains the only charge Kingston is being held on in lieu of bail, jail staff said.

Original post: A Wiscasset man questioned in connection with his girlfriend's shooting was expected to be arraigned on a gun possession charge December 11.

Gardiner police arrested Sean Kingston, 38, on December 9, on the lone charge of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Kingston had agreed to meet with police. They had been looking for him as a witness to a December 7 incident in which his girlfriend received a gunshot wound to the torso.

The unnamed, 34-year-old Gardiner woman underwent surgery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston; she was expected to recover from her injury, police said.

Kingston was being held at Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta, in lieu of $1,000 bail. His arraignment was expected to take place December 11 via video from the jail, according to jail staff. A judge would be conducting the arraignment from Waterville District Court, jail staff said December 10.

The investigation into the shooting was ongoing, Gardiner Police Chief James Toman said following Kingston's arrest on the firearms charge.

According to Lincoln County Superior Court records, Kingston pleaded guilty on November 8, 2010, to criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and operating while his license was suspended or revoked. He was sentenced to serve seven days of a three-year prison sentence.

In July 2013, Justice Jeffrey Hjelm ordered Kingston to pay $25 a month until his attorney's fees from the 2010 case were paid in full. Kingston was paid up through November, according to a docket record at the courthouse in Wiscasset. A file on the case was not immediately available.

The December 9 meeting Gardiner police had with Kingston followed efforts by that department, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and the Wiscasset Police Department to locate him, Toman said.

Police believe that prior to the December 7 incident in Gardiner, Kingston was splitting his time living in Wiscasset and at the Costello Road, Gardiner, home where the shooting occurred.

The woman's children were home when the shooting occurred, but did not witness it, Toman said.