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Michigan Couple Charged After Explosive Thrown Into Neighbor's Yard

Seized firearms, ammunition, bomb-making materials led the court to impose a high cash bond with GPS tether, with no-contact orders, with a scheduled probable cause hearing

Overview

  • Prosecutors say that on Monday Megan Showers lit a red cylindrical explosive labeled "BYE BYE" while Jason Showers threw it into the couple’s 72-year-old neighbor’s yard and the neighbor put the device out.
  • Both Jason and Megan Showers were arraigned on multiple felony counts that include Possession of Bombs with Unlawful Intent and Placing an Explosive Device near property.
  • Officers executed a search warrant at the Showers’ home and reportedly found firearms, ammunition and materials used to assemble explosive devices, evidence prosecutors cited in the charges.
  • The court set Jason Showers’s bond at $100,000 cash-only with a steel-cuff GPS tether and orders barring contact or return to the nearby home while Megan Showers’s bond was set at $20,000 with GPS monitoring and no-contact conditions.
  • Neighbors and the 72-year-old victim described fear from years of problems at the house, and both defendants are due back for a probable cause conference on August 14 which will shape whether the case moves to trial.