LOS ANGELES -A dancer and choreographer featured on the FOX idiot box show "So You Think You Can Dance" was arrested Saturday on shade of sexually assaulting four of his tea dance students, oversee said. Alex Da Silva, 41, a illustrious salsa dancer who teaches at several Los Angeles promenade studios, was enchanted into safe keeping after teaching a refinement at a Hollywood studio and booked for scrutiny of sensuous assault, Det. John Eum said. Da Silva, who was being held on $3.8 million bail, is scheduled to name his foremost court suggestion Tuesday.
It wasn't forthwith known whether the Brazilian-born Da Silva has retained an attorney. The voicemail for a phone mob posted on his Web orientation was wide and wouldn't brook messages. Da Silva had been accused in 2003, 2004 and 2005 of sexually assaulting three women, but for unsung reasons prosecutors declined to arrange charges, Eum said. Then on March 28, a fourth trouble and strife accused Da Silva of luring her to his home, using a imposture to get her into his bedroom and raping her.
Detectives went back to talk the early accusers, found almost identical accusations of being lured to Da Silva's bedroom and sexually assaulted by him, and reopened their cases. "These four women don't conscious each other at all, yet their reports understand basically the same," the constable said. He distinguished that one of the accusers was a schoolgirl at the beat of the assumed assault. "We're almost definite there are likely other victims out there and we conviction they'll come forward," he said. - On the Net: Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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