A Georgia man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to bombing a woman's home and conspiring to release a python into her house to "eat the victim's daughter," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Stephen Glosser, 38, of Savannah, pleaded guilty to stalking and use of an explosive to commit another felony offense, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia said in a news release Thursday. A judge also ordered Glosser to pay over $500,000 in restitution to the two victims in the case, and to serve three years of supervised release after completing his prison term.

The home explosion occurred in January 2023, in the city of Richmond Hill, just south of Savannah, the Savannah Morning News , part of the USA TODAY Network, previously reported. Authorities said two people who were inside the residence at the time, a woman and a child, escaped with no injuries.

"This case serves as a stark reminder that those who use terror and threats to intimidate others will face the full force of the law," Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said in a statement.

Sheriff: 'It almost looked like a tornado went off inside the home'

On Jan. 13, 2023, Bryan County emergency services personnel responded to a reported explosion that "extensively damaged a Richmond Hill home with two people inside," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Authorities said the explosion was so powerful it blew bricks off the residence and left behind a roughly 2-by-2-foot crater in the concrete driveway.

"I've never seen anything like this in my 26 years of being in law enforcement," Bryan County Sheriff Mark Crowe said during a news conference the following month. "When I arrived on the scene out there, I had no idea of the devastation that I would see at the home. It almost looked like a tornado went off inside the home with all the debris and damage."

Prosecutors said Glosser located the adult victim's residence online using his cell phone and an image the victim had previously shared with Glosser. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told WTOC that Glosser had met the victim through a dating app and the two had a casual relationship that had ended.

ATF investgator Nile Eltzroth said Kinsey was a friend and roommate of Glosser, WTOC reported. The pair lived together in Savannah and are both former members of the U.S. Air Force, according to Eltzroth.

2 defendants also conspired to release a python into victim's home

Authorities also said Glosser and Kinsey had plotted other tactics meant to target the adult victim. Between December 2022 and January 2023, Glosser and Kinsey used electronic communications to place the victim under surveillance “with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate," according to an indictment in the case.

Officials said Glosser confessed to conspiring to shoot arrows into the woman's door, release a "large python into the victim’s home to eat the victim’s daughter," mail dog feces and dead rats to her home, and scalp her, the indictment states.

Prosecutors said Kinsey purchased exploding targets online, which the two men used to construct a homemade bomb. The pair then mapped out a path to the victim's home and used the bomb to blow up the residence.

The Bryan County Sheriff's Office previously said the victim had just moved into the home a day before the incident. WTOC reported that a witness told investigators they saw a black SUV leaving the scene "in a hurry."

After the bombing, Glosser hired a cleaning service to clean the carpets in his residence to hide traces of the bomb-making materials, prosecutors said. Investigators later discovered that the black vehicle belonged to Kinsey and served a search warrant on Kinsey and Glosser’s home and their phones, according to WTOC.

The investigation also uncovered plans the pair made to blow up a courthouse and target a former coworker, WTOC reported.

Glosser and Kinsey were arrested on Feb. 8, 2023, authorities said. Kinsey was taken into custody in Lousiana while Glosser was still in the local area at the time of his arrest.