Roberto Danilo Franco (©Broward County Jail)
Roberto Danilo Franco (©Broward County Jail)

Roberto Danilo Franco is a martial arts instructor from Florida, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

  1. He hails from Pembroke Pines, Florida. (a)
  2. He was born in Ecuador. (b)
  3. He speaks English and Spanish. (a)
  4. He is a 5-degree black belt in taekwondo. (a)
  5. He runs Master Franco's Taekwondo Academy, a dojo in Pembroke Pines. (b) (c)
  6. In 1980, he was first place in kickboxing in a full-contact tournament. (a)
  7. In 2007, his son Robert Franco II was born. (a)
  8. In January 2021, he became the new director of operations and marketing director of Master Franks Taekwondo Academy in Miami, Florida. (a)
  9. On March 2, 2021, he completed the International Taekwondo Master-Foreign online course by the World Taekwondo Academy. On May 1, 2021, he participated in the inaugural International Online Seminar on Combative Taekwondo by Master Jeong In Choul. (a)
  10.  On June 31, 2021, he travelled from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia. (a)
  11. On July 29, 2021, a female student, then 17, noticed two hidden cameras inside of picture frames on a shelf in the bathroom of Master Franco's Taekwondo Academy and confronted him. Pembroke Pines Police Department officers responded to the academy later that day. The cameras were installed in March 2021, according to authorities. (c) (d)
  12. On August 6, 2021, he surrendered himself to the Broward County Jail. He was charged with three counts of video voyeurism and one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. His bond was set at $20,000. (c) (e)
  13. He was 64 years old when he was arrested on August 6, 2021. (c)

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