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A Georgia man who set off a homemade bomb at the home of a woman he viscously stalked — after releasing a python in the residence to eat her daughter — was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, prosecutors said. Stephen Glosser, 38, was handed the sentence after he planted an explosive device that blew up part of the woman’s Richmond Hill home on Jan. 13, 2023 as part of sordid plot to have her killed and her daughter eaten by a python, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia. The victim – who...

Atlanta police are looking for a man who tried to stick up a Truist Bank in Buckhead with a can of Pringles in one hand, and a gun in the other.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - A Gainesville man's attempt to rob the employees of a local business became than he bargained after it turned into what police described "like a scene from Home Alone." The Gainesville police say that 30-year-old Luis Sajbocho-Ordonez had hid himself behind a business on the 400 block of Atlanta Highway in the early morning hours of Christmas Day. When an employee exited the store, police say Sajbocho-Ordonez pulled a gun on them and demanded cash, leading to a struggle. Investigators say Sajbocho-Ordonez became startled when another employee left the building and fired a shot, which didn't hit...

SNELLVILLE, Ga. — Earl Lazenby had delivered mail for years to the aging brown home with overgrown plants in the yard and a National Rifle Association sticker on the front door. The home's owner was always friendly, sometimes chatting with Lazenby at the grocery store in this Atlanta suburb. But what Lazenby didn't know was that William Crutchfield was deep in debt and looking for a way out. Crutchfield apparently watched with envy as Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph was headed to prison for life and aspired to the same fate — allowing him to live off the government while behind...