Tuesday, April 20, 1999
Student faces trial for gun in car
Lebanon upholds his expulsion
BY SHEILA McLAUGHLIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — A Lebanon High School senior accused of having a loaded gun in his car on school grounds Feb. 17 is headed for trial.
A Warren County grand jury indicted Andrew Szymanski, 18, on Monday on a single felony count of illegal conveyance or possession of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance on school premises.
If convicted of the charge, he faces up to one year in prison.
“Legislators clearly made this a serious offense, and this office agrees with that assessment,” Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver said after releasing the indictment.
“It's a dangerous situation anytime a juvenile has a weapon on school grounds. We're clearly concerned about it.”
The Lebanon City Schools' Board of Education Monday evening upheld Mr. Syzmanski's expulsion.
Mr. Szymanski's lawyer and parents have contended the student had a .22-caliber rifle and an unloaded air pellet pistol in the trunk because he was planning to go to a target range after leaving a counseling session at school Feb. 17.
School officials searched the car's trunk after administrators received a tip that Mr. Szymanski — who was suspended from school a month before for allegedly writing a threatening note on an English test — might have a gun.
Mr. Szymanski had special permission to be at the school to meet with a school psychologist.
Lebanon police initially charged Mr. Szymanski with two felony counts of possession of firearms and a misdemeanor charge of illegal transportation of firearms.
His case was referred to the grand jury April 8 after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence to substantiate the charges.
Mr. Szymanski remains free on a $2,500 bond and is to appear in Warren County Common Pleas Court for arraignment April 30.
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