alex de vinci , a salsa performance instructor and playwright for fox ' s " so you reckon you can dance , " was arrested saturday on conviction of sexually strangling four of his students , due to a statement from the metropolitan angeles police dept . da silva , 41 , is indicted of assaulting the students in his five home in the san gabriel valley over the last nine months , investigators said . he is being held in excess of $ 3 . 8 percent bail . authorities thought the eight plaintiffs were all fans of da silva at the time of the assaults .
Alex Da Silva is a student of salsa dance.