Authorities said the woman had traveled from Orlando with her daughter after making plans with a man she met online.
MIAMI, Fla. — Miami police said a woman trapped inside an apartment with her 3-year-old daughter during a first date reached out to a friend for help, leading officers to the home and the arrest of a 34-year-old man on multiple charges.
Police identified the suspect as Saady Mijail Castellanos Triminio and said the case grew out of a dating-app connection made earlier in February. Investigators accuse him of keeping the woman from leaving, taking her phone and covering her mouth and nose after she tried to scream. The response ended shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday, when officers arrived at the apartment and removed the woman and child, pushing the case from a private encounter into the public court system.
According to police, the woman agreed to travel from Orlando to Miami after talking with Castellanos Triminio on the phone. She brought her daughter and expected a first date in public. CBS Miami reported that police said he bought her Brightline ticket and framed the meeting as a birthday celebration. The woman arrived around 5:30 p.m. Friday, investigators said, and Castellanos Triminio picked them up. Instead of going out to dinner, police said, he bought pizza and took them to his apartment in the 7800 block of Northeast Bayshore Court. The woman told officers she felt uneasy once she entered. In the probable cause affidavit, police wrote that she noticed the bathroom had no toilet paper and that the apartment was generally dirty. The detail stood out because it marked the point when her concern shifted from uncertainty to alarm, even before the alleged assault began.
Police said the woman tried to continue the evening peacefully but decided to leave after Castellanos Triminio asked for physical affection and she refused. She told him they were just friends, investigators wrote, and began collecting her belongings. That is when, according to police, he became angry and told her it was too dangerous to leave. Officers said he bear-hugged her and physically blocked her from getting out. The woman then sent a message to a friend saying she was in trouble, the affidavit says, but Castellanos Triminio took her phone. Police said he covered her mouth and nose when she screamed, making it difficult for her to breathe. At some point she managed to get away, move into a locked room with her daughter and reconnect with the friend. The friend called 911, and officers used that contact to direct the woman to make noise from inside the apartment so they could find her quickly once they got there.
The officers’ arrival became the turning point. Police said Castellanos Triminio opened the apartment door and officers rescued the woman and child. Investigators reported that the woman had bruises on both arms but did not need medical treatment. The child, police said, witnessed the encounter. Authorities then arrested Castellanos Triminio on counts of strong-arm robbery, child neglect, false imprisonment and battery by strangulation. The exact length of time the woman was unable to leave has not been spelled out in the public reporting, and investigators have not publicly described whether they recovered the phone, collected photographs from inside the apartment or found outside witnesses. Those unknowns could become more important later if prosecutors file detailed court documents or if defense lawyers challenge parts of the timeline.
Police also said Castellanos Triminio made incriminating statements after his arrest. After receiving Miranda warnings, he admitted “to the incident in its entirety,” according to the affidavit cited in news reports. Officers said he told them he stopped the woman from leaving because he thought it was too dangerous outside and that he covered her mouth and nose because he did not want neighbors to hear. Those statements, if introduced in court, would reinforce the woman’s account that she was deliberately restrained. They also narrow one likely area of dispute. The issue would be less about whether physical contact happened and more about why it happened, how long it lasted and whether the force described by police meets the criminal elements tied to the charges.
The setting matters because so much of the evening depended on trust built at a distance. The woman was more than 200 miles from home, traveling with a small child to meet a man she had never seen in person. She arrived expecting a restaurant meal in a public place and instead found herself in a private apartment with limited control over transportation and no local support except the friend she could message by phone. Investigators’ inclusion of ordinary details such as pizza, the dirty apartment and the locked room gives the account a plainspoken texture often found in early police affidavits. Those details do not prove the charges by themselves, but they help establish the sequence of events and explain the woman’s actions as the situation deteriorated.
Local reporting said a judge later set bond at $17,500, imposed a stay-away order protecting the woman and placed an immigration hold on Castellanos Triminio. Those are early procedural steps, not final outcomes. Prosecutors still must decide how they want to proceed as the case moves through Miami-Dade County. Future hearings could address release conditions, formal charging language, discovery and any defense challenges to statements or evidence. The public record so far does not say whether prosecutors will seek to keep all counts, add new ones or negotiate any changes as the file develops. For now, the arrest affidavit remains the clearest public narrative of what police say happened inside the apartment.
The rescue itself turned on a simple act: a message to a friend. In many criminal cases, the most powerful evidence is physical or technical. Here, at least in the early record, a personal contact appears to have been just as important. The friend’s role, the officers’ instructions to make noise and the timing of the response all helped produce an outcome that police say brought the woman and child out alive and before the confrontation grew worse. The apartment door opened, officers entered and a private date ended in a public criminal file.
As of the latest reports, the case remained active in Miami-Dade County, with additional court proceedings expected. The next update is likely to come through formal filings, hearing dates or revised custody information in county records.
Author note: Last updated March 23, 2026.