Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 60-year-old Michael M. Meyers of Town of Hamburg was arraigned on Monday afternoon before State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller on a violation of probation.

It is alleged that on December 13, 2022, Erie County probation officers were conducting a routine visit at the defendant’s home on Moncton Drive in the Town of Hamburg when they found eight homemade tubular improvised explosives inside of his residence.

Meyers is scheduled to return on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. for further proceedings. He was held without bail. 

Meyers was also arraigned on Thursday afternoon before Hamburg Town Court Justice Carl W. Morgan on eight counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree (Class “D” felonies).

Our office requested that the defendant be remanded as the charges are felony offenses that he allegedly committed while he was serving a sentence of probation. He was held without bail.

Meyers is scheduled to return to Hamburg Town Court on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. for a felony hearing. 

On November 1, 2022, Meyers was sentenced to three years of probation with sex offender conditions. Between on or about December 2015 through August 2019, the defendant acted in a manner likely to be injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare of a child, starting when the victim was 11-years-old. Between on or about May 2016 through September 2019, the defendant acted in a manner likely to be injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare of a second child, starting when the victim was 13-years-old. The defendant was known to both victims and the crimes occurred at locations in the Town of Boston and the Town of Hamburg.

Meyers pleaded guilty to two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child (Class “A” misdemeanors) in August 2022. At sentencing, Justice Boller issued final orders of protection on behalf of both victims, which remain in effect for five years.

DA Flynn commends the Erie County Department of Probation and New York State Police for their work in this investigation.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Chief Cathleen M. Roemer of the Special Victims/Domestic Violence Bureau.