{"id":235340,"date":"2026-04-17T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235340\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:42:21","slug":"whatsapp-posts-get-florida-international-university-student-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235340\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp posts get Florida International University student arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 16, 2026 at 1:03 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 23-year-old Florida International University student\u2019s recent messages on a WhatsApp group resulted in a criminal case, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gabriela Saldana was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday after corrections booked her on Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saldana \u201cmade a threat to kill or do bodily harm\u201d in her posts on Friday and Wednesday about \u201ca scheduled event\u201d in a WhatsApp group chat, according to a police officer\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saldana \u201cadmitted to sending and transmitting the messages,\u201d and FIU campus police officers arrested her shortly after 2:10 a.m. on Thursday on campus at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JeHe5dXYZd9ojBXA6\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JeHe5dXYZd9ojBXA6\">885 SW 109 Ave<\/a>., records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police officers did not include the specific threats in their report about the alleged crime. FIU released a statement saying the threat of violence at a planned university event was credible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGiven the ongoing investigation and federal student privacy laws, FIU has no further comment,\u201d a spokesperson for FIU wrote. \u201cThere is no further threat to the university community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 16, 2026 at 1:03 PM A 23-year-old Florida International University student\u2019s recent messages on a WhatsApp group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-235340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}