Los Angeles police arrested “America’s Best Dance Crew” judge Shane Sparks, Friday morning (December 18) on a felony warrant and charged him with eight counts of felony child molestation. He is being held on $590,000 bail.

According to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, Sparks, 35, was taken into custody at around 8 a.m. PT on Friday on a felony warrant charging him with molestation that allegedly began in the early-to-mid 1990s.

The age of the victim was not revealed by the DA’s spokesperson, but Sparks would have been in his early 20s at the time they allegedly began. The DA’s office spokesperson declined to provide more specific detail on the allegations at press time because the original charging document released to the press contained substantial typographical errors that did not reflect the true nature of the charges.

Fox News 11 in Los Angeles reported that the victim was one of Sparks’ dance students at Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles.

MTV had no comment on the arrest, and a rep for Sparks told MTV News that no comment was available at press time.

Americas Best Dance Crew is scheduled to return for its 4th season in January, most likely, without Shane Sparks.

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