Feds, NYPD nab Kelly on new charges

Superstar R&B singer R. Kelly was arrested on new federal sex crimes charges he will face in Brooklyn federal court, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.

Kelly, whose long history of sex assault allegations was detailed in a Lifetime TV documentary in January, was busted in Chicago by NYPD detectives and federal Homeland Security investigators, the sources said.

The charges involve sex trafficking, a law enforcement source told the Daily News.

Kelly was arrested outside his home in Chicago’s Trump Tower while he walked his dog, the Chicago Tribune reported.

NYPD investigators met in January with Faith Rodgers, one of Kelly’s chief accusers. Rodgers’ lawyer, Gloria Allred, said at the time Rodgers was “doing her duty to provide information.”

Rodgers sued Kelly in 2018, claiming he forced her to have “nonpermissive, painful and abusive sex” in a New York hotel in 2017 and knowingly infected her with herpes. She said Kelly manipulated her in a yearlong relationship during which he locked her in rooms and vehicles as “punishment” for “failing to please” him.

“I trusted him, and he betrayed my trust,” Rodgers said at a news conference in January. “Once I recognized my worth, I knew I had to walk away.”

Until now, all criminal charges against Kelly have been in state court in Chicago.

Kelly was charged in February with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sex abuse of four victims, three of whom were between 13 and 17. He pleaded not guilty to those charges.

Prosecutors brought 11 new counts of sex assault and sex abuse in May. They include four counts of aggravated sexual assault — felonies that carry a maximum 30-year sentence.

He pleaded not guilty to those charges in June.

Kelly (photo), whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has two No. 1 Billboard hits, 1994’s “Bump N’ Grind” and 1998’s “I’m Your Angel.”