Georgia man who pleaded guilty to bombing woman's home and plotting python attack on her daughter gets 20 years
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A Georgia man who pleaded guilty to bombing a woman's home in a bizarre plot that included conspiring to "release a large python into the victim's home to eat the victim's daughter," was sentenced to 20 years in prison, authorities announced.
Stephen Glosser, 38, of Savannah, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to stalking and use of an explosive to commit another felony offense, prosecutors in Georgia announced Thursday. A judge also ordered Glosser to pay over $500,000 in restitution to two victims in the case.
Glosser, 37, and his co-defendant, Caleb Kinsey, 34, were charged in March 2024, accused of building an explosive to blow up the victim's home in Richmond Hill, Georgia, on Jan. 13, 2023. The two people inside the house at the time survived.
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