POLK COUNTY, Fla. – An associate of embattled singer R. Kelly was arrested for allegedly setting fire to a vehicle outside of a Central Florida home after federal authorities identified him through Google search history records, recently unsealed court documents show.
“Certainly, one of the issues in this case is going to be the constitutionality for the search warrant for his Google search history and how that is used against him,” said Williams’s attorney, Todd Spodek.
As Clary was preparing to testify against Kelly in federal court, her mother called 911 report the family’s car had been set on fire by someone wearing a hoodie.
Four days after the fire, a federal judge authorized a search warrant that was issued to Google for records on people who had searched Clary’s home address.
Among the unspecified number of individuals who searched the address was someone using a phone registered to Williams while signed into his Google account, court records allege.