{"id":84274,"date":"2025-12-15T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84274\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:42:08","slug":"hialeah-man-held-woman-at-knifepoint-during-attempted-sexual-assault-in-condo-laundry-room-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84274\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah man held woman at knifepoint during attempted sexual assault in condo laundry room, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/hialeah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Hialeah<\/a> man is facing felony charges after police say he held a woman at knifepoint inside a laundry room during an attempted sexual battery, according to an arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Antonio Rodas Martinez was arrested on Sunday followed the alleged attack on Dec. 9, and has been charged with attempted sexual battery with a weapon causing serious personal injury and kidnapping with a weapon, firearm or aggravated battery, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest report showed that on Dec. 9, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/hialeah-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Hialeah police<\/a> responded to reports of an attempted sexual battery that took place inside a shared laundry room.<\/p>\n<p>Victim told police suspect approached her with knife, arrest report says<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/luis-antonio-rodas-martinez.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"luis-antonio-rodas-martinez.jpg \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Luis Antonio Rodas Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>                Miami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>The victim told police that she was washing clothes inside the laundry room of her apartment complex when she was approached by Rodas Martinez, who she said was armed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>He then began to pin her against a washing machine while holding the knife against her torso, pulled down her pants and tried to sexually assault her.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was able to scream for help, alerting someone living near the laundry room to investigate, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>That witness told police that he saw Rodas Martinez holding the victim against her will, and when he approached the two, Rodas Martinez fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators reviewed surveillance video and was able to determine that Rodas Martinez lived in the area, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators then showed a photo of Rodas Martinez to his brother, who confirmed it was him.<\/p>\n<p>Rodas Martinez was then arrested and charged in connection to the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old Hialeah man is facing felony charges after police say he held a woman at knifepoint inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[265,225,227,226,1638,1064,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-84274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-hialeah","10":"tag-hialeah-headlines","11":"tag-hialeah-news","12":"tag-hialeah-police","13":"tag-miami-dade","14":"tag-south-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84274","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=84274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}