Crim pro question, “Furious” edition

Folks should watch Furious (Hulu), a great show about a female FBI agent hunting a female serial killer targeting men who trafficked her. (I do not believe this involves spoilers).

The end-game (no spoilers, since this is not a mystery) revolves around the agent allowing the serial killer to go to the home of the “main” trafficker (a not-subtle Jeffrey Epstein analogue) so police can arrest her at the guy’s house and search the entire house as a search-incident-to-lawful-arrest (which, they hoped, would turn up CSAM).

Here is my question: That cannot be legally accurate, can it? Can law enforcement use SILA to conduct a broad search of property belonging to someone other than the arrestee (and, in this case, belonging to the person the arrestee was trying to kill)?

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