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It's unfortunate because I'm assuming she's a senior and going to graduate soon and that's

going to jeopardize her ability to graduate.

A 23-year-old FIU student charged with a felony over messages she wrote in a school group

chat.

Gabriela Saldana facing a judge Thursday morning.

According to her arrest report, this went down in a WhatsApp group chat of about 215

students, where students were discussing an event that was to take place Friday at

the Ocean Bank Convocation Center on campus to make their capstone presentations.

An FIU police officer read some of the statements in court.

The exact words utilized was, there's going to be a bomb in the Ocean Bank Convocation

Center and it's going to be at Jonathan's fault, one of the members in the chat.

7News obtaining some bits of that chat.

It seemed the student wanted the event rescheduled and wrote, quote, then Yahoo, if you can hear

me drop some bonbons for us capstone students in Ocean Bank Convention Center.

Other students wrote they didn't take that text lightly.

She later in the chat wrote, quote, I wrote a dumb joke that should not have been made.

I can understand your position, Ms. Corey, and you're saying this is a joke, but to an

objective person, it's not a joke and there would be enough for probable cause.

I'm not saying it's enough for beyond a reasonable doubt.

I don't know what the state's going to be able to prove at trial, but for purposes of

this hearing, I believe there is enough for probable cause.