Investigators said the woman traveled from Orlando with her young daughter after meeting the suspect on a social media dating app.
MIAMI, Fla. — A woman who came to Miami from Orlando with her 3-year-old daughter for a first date was rescued from an apartment before 3 a.m. Saturday after police said the man she came to meet refused to let her leave and assaulted her.
Saady Mijail Castellanos Triminio, 34, was arrested in the case and accused of strong-arm robbery, child neglect, false imprisonment and battery by strangulation. Police said the allegations grew out of a meeting arranged through a dating app earlier in February. What began as a long train ride for dinner became an overnight police response, a jail booking and court action that local media reported included bond, a stay-away order and an immigration hold.
Investigators said the woman and Castellanos Triminio had spoken by phone after matching on a social media dating platform. She agreed to travel to Miami on Friday and brought her daughter with her. According to CBS Miami, police said Castellanos Triminio offered to pay for the Brightline ticket so they could celebrate his birthday. Police said the woman arrived by train at about 5:30 p.m. She expected dinner, but officers wrote that Castellanos Triminio instead picked them up and took them to his apartment after buying pizza. The apartment was in the 7800 block of Northeast Bayshore Court. There, according to the arrest affidavit, the woman quickly became unsettled. Police said she noticed that the bathroom had no toilet paper and described the apartment as dirty. The detail was unusual, but in the affidavit it served as the first concrete sign that she believed something about the night was wrong.
The affidavit said the woman stayed for a time and talked with Castellanos Triminio. When he asked for a hug and kiss, she refused and told him they were only friends. Police said she then began collecting her things to leave. Investigators wrote that Castellanos Triminio became irate and told her not to go because it was too dangerous outside. The woman told police he then bear-hugged her and physically prevented her from leaving. She managed to send a text to a friend saying she was in trouble, but officers said he took her phone. When she screamed, police wrote, he covered her mouth and nose with his hand so she could not yell and could not breathe. The woman later escaped to another room with her daughter, locked the door and reached her friend again. That friend called 911, setting in motion the rescue that ended the encounter.
Police said the responding officers used the friend’s phone contact to help locate the woman once they arrived. They instructed the friend to tell her to make noise from inside the apartment. Shortly before 3 a.m., police said, Castellanos Triminio opened the door and officers got the woman and child out. The woman had bruises on both arms, police said, though officers noted she did not need medical attention at the scene. Authorities also said the child witnessed the incident. Those facts shaped the list of charges and raised the stakes beyond a dispute between two adults. The public record released so far does not explain whether the child was asleep during any part of the ordeal, whether neighbors heard the struggle before police arrived, or whether prosecutors intend to seek new or upgraded charges after reviewing the file.
The case also turned on what happened after the arrest. According to police, Castellanos Triminio was advised of his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with investigators. Officers wrote that he admitted “to the incident in its entirety.” They said he told them he stopped the woman from leaving because he believed it was too dangerous and that he covered her mouth and nose because he did not want to alert neighbors. Statements like that can become important evidence because they are tied directly to intent, force and restraint. At the same time, those statements would still need to be weighed in court with the rest of the record, including the woman’s account, officers’ observations and any phone or dispatch evidence created during the 911 response.
The broader setting adds to the force of the case. The woman was far from home, traveling with a toddler, and depended on the man she had just met to pick her up from the train station and carry out the plans he described. Once the evening shifted from a public dinner to a private apartment, the balance of control changed. Police records cited in the reporting say she tried to leave before the encounter became fully violent, which may become an important detail in any future courtroom arguments. The affidavit also frames the confrontation as escalating in clear steps: discomfort, a refused advance, an effort to leave, physical restraint, a hidden plea for help and then police intervention. That structure gives prosecutors a simple timeline and gives defense lawyers a clear sequence to test.
Local television reporting said a judge set bond at $17,500 and issued a stay-away order for the woman, while also placing an immigration hold on Castellanos Triminio. Those conditions suggest the case moved quickly into early court review. Bond and custody status can change as hearings continue, and the public still does not know whether formal charging documents will mirror the arrest counts exactly. The next steps are likely to include prosecutor review, arraignment-related proceedings, possible discovery requests and any additional hearings over release conditions. If more records become public, they may answer unresolved questions about the timeline inside the apartment and the evidence collected after the arrest.
The story’s most important supporting figure may be the friend who received the woman’s message and called 911. That person never entered the apartment, but police said the friend became the bridge that allowed officers to find the woman and child. The case also depends heavily on small, vivid moments that investigators chose to document: the pizza that replaced dinner plans, the condition of the apartment, the locked room and the effort to keep neighbors from hearing. Together, those details move the case from a broad allegation to a scene with a sequence, a place and a set of choices that investigators say ended with a crime.
Castellanos Triminio’s case remained in its early stages as of the latest public reports. The next milestone will be further court action in Miami-Dade County and any additional filings that clarify the charges, custody status and evidence prosecutors intend to present.
Author note: Last updated March 23, 2026.