A 23-year-old Florida International University student’s recent messages on a WhatsApp group resulted in a criminal case, according to police.
Gabriela Saldana was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday after corrections booked her on Wednesday afternoon.
Saldana “made a threat to kill or do bodily harm” in her posts on Friday and Wednesday about “a scheduled event” in a WhatsApp group chat, according to a police officer’s arrest report.
Saldana “admitted to sending and transmitting the messages,” and FIU campus police officers arrested her shortly after 2:10 a.m. on Thursday on campus at 885 SW 109 Ave., records show.
Police officers did not include the specific threats in their report about the alleged crime.
Miami-Dade corrections booked Saldana shortly after 4:15 a.m. on Thursday. She faced a charge of written threats to kill or do bodily injury.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.
