SAN JOSE — A boxing teacher and registered intercourse offender has been charged with sexually assaulting two shoppers at his San Jose health club and making an attempt to extort an worker by withholding her pay until she despatched him nude pictures, authorities say.
Tristan Arfi, 42, has been charged with sexual assault and extortion involving clients and an worker at a San Jose boxing health club he operated, based on authorities. (California Dept. of Justice)
Tristan Georges Arfi, 42, of San Jose, was arrested Thursday and has been charged with seven felony sexual assault counts, based on the Santa Clara County District Legal professional’s Workplace.
The fees are based mostly partly on allegations by two girls who had been shoppers of YBX Health club in downtown San Jose, for which police and prosecutors say Arfi was the chief working officer.
In accordance with a joint investigation by the San Jose Police Division and the DA’s Bureau of Investigations, the ladies reported that Arfi groped and caressed them “in a sexually inappropriate manner” after he provided them personal massages.
Authorities additionally allege that Arfi tried to extort a girl working on the health club by refusing to pay her until she agreed to ship him nude pictures of herself. He’s additionally accused of constructing staff signal non-disclosure agreements prohibiting them from talking brazenly about what befell on the health club, which prosecutors say are usually not enforceable in the event that they forestall signatories from reporting misconduct together with harassment, discrimination or prison exercise.
In December 2019, Arfi pleaded no contest to a felony cost of lewd and lascivious acts with a baby 14 or 15 years of age at a boxing health club in Menlo Park, based on authorities and San Mateo County courtroom information. The conviction required him to register as a intercourse offender with the California Division of Justice.
Initially Printed: November 22, 2024 at 11:10 AM PST
