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July 12, 2019
Pop star and Musician R.
Kelly has been arrested on federal child pornography and obstruction of justice
charges.
The U.S.
attorney's office in Chicago said the pop star was arrested Thursday on a
13-count charges. "R
Kelly was arrested in Chicago on charges contained in
a 13-count indictment returned today in
the Northern District of Illinois," the attorney's
office said in a statement late Thursday. "The indictment includes charges
of child pornography and obstruction of justice."a 13-count indictment returned today in
Kelly was
arrested by the New York Police Department, which will eventually bring him to
New York City, a police source told ABC News.
Darrell
Johnson, Kelly's representative, said he will hold a press conference at 9:30
a.m. Eastern time Friday.
The charges
are the latest in a number of legal issues for Kelly this year. The singer,
whose real name is Robert Kelly, is also facing 10 counts of felony criminal
sexual abuse involving four alleged victims, after being arrested by the Cook
County Sheriff's Department in March. He has pleaded not guilty to those
charges, some of which date back to 1998.
Kelly last
appeared in court in Chicago on June 26, when prosecutors handed over a DVD
allegedly containing pornographic images of the singer with a minor.
"We'll
see what it shows," Kelly's lawyer, Steve Greenberg, said outside the
courthouse last month.
A trial has
not been set, but the judge said an early 2020 date is likely. Kelly's next
court hearing in that case is scheduled for Aug. 15.
The
52-year-old has always denied allegations of sexual misconduct.
He has also
dealt with a number of child support issues. He was jailed for almost a week in
March for failure to pay support dating back eight months for his three
children with his ex-wife, Andrea "Drea" Kelly.
The singer
was acquitted of prior child pornography charges in 2008, five years after
initially being arrested over a video that purported to show the singer with an
underage girl
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