District Attorney: ‘We Are Not Currently Investigating’ R. Kelly
, hours after an Atlanta mayoral candidate stated that local police had uncovered “enough evidence” to open an investigation.
As a Friday press conference, Fulton County commission chairman John Eaves said that the Johns Creek Police Department had “provided key information” to warrant a criminal investigation into the allegations first aired this July in a Buzzfeed story.
However, following Eaves’ comments, Lieutenant Chris Byers of the Johns Creek Police Department told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “There is no new evidence in the closed investigation.” Byers admitted that the police department supplied the district attorney with their case file on Kelly accusations to “let them know what was going on due to the high…