SULTAN — A 26-year-old Sultan man who threatened suicide and had a bomb strapped to his body was taken into custody early Sunday and transported to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, Sultan Police Chief Fred Walser said.
The man was disarmed after he held Sultan officers and a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy at bay for a time, and made several movements in an apparent attempt to have officers shoot him, Walser said.
About 2 a.m., police got a call of a suicidal person in the 13200 block of Gohr Road. Officers were told that the person had wired a bomb to his body and was threatening to detonate it.
Officers attempted to negotiate with him, but he demanded they "just shoot him or he said he would blow them all up," Walser said.
The device turned out to be a black powder pipe bomb that used a model rocket engine as a detonator, Walser said.
The man, who had attempted suicide previously, apparently was despondent over the breakup and recent arrest of his girlfriend, Walser added.
He faces several charges, including assault, making threats to bomb and assembling an explosive device.
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