As Tufts keeps getting bomb threats, California man awaits sentencing for making threatening calls to the school last year

A Hayward, CA man who likes calling "lady officers" faces sentencing on Feb. 3 for calls to Tufts University Police that led to an hours long search of campus dorms in 2021 for a ex-special services specialist with a taser and guns hiding under the bed of a woman whose dorm room he had supposedly broken into.

Sammy Sultan, 49, pleaded guilty to one count of making threats in interstate commerce, the US Attorney's office reports. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to similar charges for incidents in 2015 and 2016, and received a two-year sentence in federal prison.

Sultan made eight calls to Tufts Police between 6:38 a.m. and 8:35 a.m. on May 28, 2021, leavening his calls about the bed he was under and the weapons he had with details of his foot fetish, according to an affidavit by an FBI officer on the case:

He claimed to be a former member of the military "special forces" who had taken "pills," "escaped from a hospital," and was hiding beneath a bed. He further stated that he possessed an "X26 Taser Gun" and several "pistols." On several occasions during the calls, he stated that he intended to use the taser if the unidentified female whose dorm room he occupied returned to the room and discovered him hiding beneath the bed. ...

7:03 a.m.: SULTAN said, "I'm going to go tase somebody now" and "If the lady comes back into the room, and tries to look under the bed, I have to tase her." During the call, the sound of what appeared to be a taser being activated, and a handgun being racked or cycled, could again be heard in the background. Contemporaneously with these sounds being made, SULTAN claimed that the first sound was an X26 taser, and also said he possessed pistols. ...

He also engaged in an extensive discussion with one female officer with whom he spoke about the smell of slippers and shining her shoes, which is similar to other calls SULTAN has made with which I am familiar.

In fact, Sultan was in the garage of his elderly father's house, which had been outfitted as a bedroom for him, according to the affidavit, which says he has been making calls like this for years, sometimes after looking up women police officers across the country, whom he would then dial to make threats to. Sometimes, he played a recording of crying puppies to bolster claims he was in a room with puppies he was about to kill.

Sultan was arrested in March (click for copy of the complete FBI affidavit).

Before his sentencing for the 2015-2016 calls, Sultan's lawyer described him as a depressed addict who grew up with "a broken relationship" with his father and wrote Sultan's conditions only grew worse after his mother died.