Robert Stojinski Jr. learned the hard way what happens when a homemade explosive meets a hammer.
The 43-year-old Gaithersburg man was sentenced to 54 years in prison, with all but 25 years suspended, months after a pipe bomb exploded inside his Montgomery County home, blasting a hole between floors and sending pieces of metal shrapnel flying through the house.
Robert Stojinski, Jr.
Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office
And that was only the beginning of what investigators found inside.
The explosion happened at Stojinski’s home on Empress Court in Gaithersburg on Oct. 24, 2025, according to charging documents.
Robert Stojinski, Jr.
Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office
When Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service and police arrived, Stojinski was home alone, visibly injured and told first responders he had “caused an explosion,” investigators wrote…