Modified: January 23, 2023 1:19pm
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 60-year-old Michael M. Meyers of Town of Hamburg was arraigned this morning before State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller on an indictment charging him with eight counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree (Class “D” felonies) and one count of Reckless Endangerment in the Second Degree (Class “A” misdemeanor).
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, who was sentenced to a term of probation in a separate criminal matter, was released under supervision. He is scheduled to return for a pre-trial conference on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
If convicted of the highest charge, Meyers faces a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison.
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.
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.