WU Training Studio, Houston martial arts business, responds to arrest of instructor Felipe Ramon Corona

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Greater than per week after the arrest of a Houston martial arts teacher on fees he did not register as a intercourse offender, house owners of the studio he was related to say they have been the sufferer of backlash and declare he was by no means a proper worker there.

In a statement posted on their website, representatives of the Wu Coaching Studio off Richmond and Hillcroft stated one in every of their places has been vandalized and the claims are misinformation.

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“Please know that Felipe Corona was by no means part of the WTS Possession Group, and by no means a proper worker,” studio representatives stated within the assertion. “The present claims towards Felipe took WTS and the whole WTS household without warning as WTS had no data of those claims.”

Corona was convicted of sexual assault of a kid in McAllen, Texas, in 2011 in reference to a 16-year-old lady who investigators stated met him whereas he labored at a martial arts studio there. As soon as convicted, he by no means registered as a intercourse offender and claimed that he moved to Mexico.

By the point he surfaced right here, he was recognized to college students as Coach Ivan, and Wu Coaching Studio denies claims made by Robert Ezzell, who stated he was a former worker.

“Form of simply been residing underneath the radar, underneath an alias, and nobody actually understanding the reality of his nature or what he had completed,” Ezzell stated final week.

The U.S. Marshals have been tipped off about Corona by somebody who stated they noticed his photograph on a social media publish for the studio.

“WTS believes the unfold of misinformation and on-line assaults have been a focused and coordinated try by people to destroy the status, and all that WTS Possession Group has constructed,” studio representatives stated.

Investigators stated they found Corona was working at three family-owned companies in southwest Houston: Spartan T-shirts, Wu Combating World and Wu Coaching Studio.

Ezzell stated Corona was working with and round kids and youngsters.

“Even my very own girlfriend’s daughter for fairly some time,” stated Ezzell, who labored on the enterprise with Corona and his brother for 3 and a half years.

Police are asking anybody who might have been a sufferer of Corona’s to talk up and name the Houston Police Division.

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