R. Kelly is beneath investigation for possessing a retired warden’s cellphone quantity at his federal lockup in North Carolina … and he is been positioned in isolation all through a probe of the incident, in accordance with his lawyer.
Kelly’s legal professional, Beau Brindley, tells TMZ … the R&B singer’s issues started when he bought concerned in a mentor program to assist information different inmates, which was overseen by the warden at FCI Butner Medium 1.
Lately, the warden retired … however earlier than he left, he gave Kelly his mobile phone quantity in case the convicted felon wanted to succeed in out to him to hunt recommendation in regards to the mentor program.
A while after that, Kelly’s cellmate bought busted with a cell phone on his particular person — which is taken into account contraband in jail.
The lawyer says jail officers searched the inmates’ jail cell and located Kelly’s pocket book, by which the retired warden’s cellphone quantity was written.
Jail authorities positioned Kelly within the Particular Housing Unit — higher often called the SHU — whereas they examine the circumstances surrounding the previous warden’s quantity showing within the pocket book, Brindley mentioned.
We reached out to the federal Bureau of Prisons … a rep tells us, “For privateness, security, and safety causes, we don’t talk about the situations of confinement or inner safety procedures for any inmate or group of inmates.”
In 2021, Kelly was convicted in New York of racketeering, bribery, unlawful intercourse with minors and different federal offenses — and was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
Then, in 2022, he was convicted in Chicago of manufacturing youngster pornography and engaging a minor to have interaction in sexual exercise and was sentenced to twenty years behind bars.