Neo-Nazi plot to kill R. Kelly in jail? Singer seeks house arrest amid shocking claims
Disgraced singer R. Kelly wants to be released from prison and is instead seeking house arrest.
This is after an attorney for the singer said prison officials tried to hatch a plot to have him murdered through a fellow inmate.
An inmate, who says he is part of the neo-Nazi prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood, was allegedly approached by prison officials to carry out the murder plot.
R. Kelly, who was convicted of federal racketeering and sex trafficking, has requested to be released from prison and is seeking house arrest.
This is after an attorney for the disgraced singer said his life is in danger and that three officials from the Bureau of Prisons plotted to have a fellow inmate kill him, according to People.
The disgraced singer is serving a 30-year sentence in a Carolina prison.
Details of the alleged murder plot were included in a 10 June federal court filing. Inmate Mikeal Glenn Stine alleged he was asked by the prison officials to carry out the plot, according to the filing.
'At least two avowed white supremacists and members of the Aryan Brotherhood have been approached by BOP officers and directed to take Mr Kelly's life,' read the filing, according to E!.
Stine said he is a member of the neo-Nazi prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood and that he once held the title of commissioner. This role involved ordering 'beatings, stabbings, and executions that were carried out by other members of the A.B.'
Stine said that the prison official who asked him to carry out the murder plot previously directed him 'to order assaults, beatings, and killings of inmates.'
The inmate said he was transferred from Arizona's United States Penitentiary Tucson to North Carolina's Federal Correctional Institute Butner, in the unit where R. Kelly is imprisoned.
Stine, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, claimed that after completing the plot, officials said he would be allowed to live his final months as a 'free man,' according to People, who obtained the filing.
However, Stine decided to inform the singer about the alleged assignment instead of carrying it out.
According to the filing, per E!, a prison authority also warned Kelly that he was possibly in danger.
'The official then advised Mr Kelly that he was in danger and that Mr Kelly needed to be careful. The BOP official intimated that Mr Kelly was not safe in Bureau of Prisons custody,' the attorney wrote.
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