ORLANDO, Florida — Abdalla Hatim Elhakiem, a 30-year-old from Orlando, has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for stalking and making interstate threats to injure.
Elhakiem pleaded guilty on February 13, 2026, according to United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe. Court documents reveal that Elhakiem, a former student in the Biochemistry Ph.D. program at the University of Utah, was suspended after slashing the tire of a fellow student’s car. Following his suspension, he returned to Orlando and began sending threatening emails to the victim in November 2024, violating a Utah protective order.
The emails, sent from accounts created using foreign email services in Switzerland and Germany, contained threats of sexual assault and murder. Elhakiem used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to conceal his identity. On August 6, 2025, he sent a death threat from a Gmail account, which FBI agents linked directly to him…