Inspectors and members of the Chicago Fire Department raided R Kelly’s music studio Wednesday afternoon. Afterwards, the studio was cited for several building violations but more importantly it is believed the studio served as a front to house victims.
Adding to the cloud of insanity, CBS reporters filmed an unknown man leaving the premises at roughly 5 am with a computer hard drive and a box full of unknown items. Here are more details from Daily Mail.
The recording studio where R Kelly allegedly kept some of the women he is accused of abusing was raided on Wednesday by members of the Chicago Fire Department and building inspectors with the city. CBS 2 was on the scene as a group of over 10 city workers descended upon the building, where someone had written ‘rapist pedophile’ under one of the windows with chalk.
The station’s reporter Mike Puccinelli was also there just after 5am on Wednesday when an unidentified man was seen taking boxes and a computer out of the building, loading them into his trunk and driving off. It is not known who the man works for or why he was so eager to remove the property from the warehouse, which is under 24-hour police surveillance.
Kelly was ultimately cited for multiple building code violations, including evidence of individuals living in the non-residential building .Puccinelli was on the scene at 5am after it was revealed that officials would be arriving later in the day. He managed to capture the mystery man rolling out the boxes and computer. ‘Man spotted bringing computer tower and boxes out of R. Kelly’s west side recording studio before dawn Wednesday,’ he wrote on Teitter.
‘Would not say if he was the landlord or an employee of the embattled singer.’ A team of police later arrived to secure to the area while building inspectors and members of the fire department entered the premises. There were also a number of men who entered prior to that who were not with the city. Puccinelli poke to one of those men, who claims to be Kelly’s stepbrother. He said the women speaking out against the singer were after money. Kelly’s landlord meanwhile claims he does not have a key to access the property.
In the recent Lifetime series Surviving R Kelly, the parents of one of the young women with Kelly were seen throwing rocks at the studio windows trying to get the attention of their daughter. When they called Chicago police however, the members of law enforcement were not able to legally enter the property. Kelly has yet to be charged with any crime in the wake of the docuseries premiering, but his manager has found himself in trouble with the law.
The next plot to unfold would be the revelation on how someone was tipped ahead of investigators.
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