Gun Hoax...but Sheriff Zylak won't admit it....
Simply a Hoax...no weapons found...or else the guns may still be there but the cops couldn't find them...which is it?

Looney days at Leonardtown High shows its time for metal detectors at the doors to stop false or silly reports of bombs and guns from closing down school...
Latest Report:  two construction workers were arrested for possession of drugs at Leonardtown High, more arrests are expected as the sudden search of the school reveals other contraband....no weapons were found .....three schools and the criminal kid center were shut down for the day due to the report by two students and a parent that someone may have had a gun....see more in print edition this weekend....
.a report by two students to police that they saw other students loading guns into a duffle bag, such as took place at Columbine High School's mass killing in Colorado, has set Leonardtown High School into a lockdown with police setting up a task force command across the street at the county fairgrounds....the school is in it's second day of final exams which could have been the motive for a false report or a real report of a gun incident....the school, located on Rt. 5 south of Leonardtown is a sprawling campus next to two other school buildings, the county's tech center and the Leonardtown Middle School.  Parents are also going to the county fairgrounds to the police command post.   The St. Mary's Sheriff's Dept. refuses to release any information as of 10:18 am.  A spokesman simply said that all students are fine and the school is locked down, no one has been injured but no details are being released to the media....anyone with info can send it on
Ambulance is being called to the school for a report of someone with seizures, which is apparently unrelated to the initial guns in the school report....look for police to start sorting through the school, emptying out room by room, the students and the staff....
It used to be false fire alarms, then false bomb threats, now it may be false gun reports to block final exams....or just daffiness among students and silly adults who have shown that they can turn an entire school into a tailspin over an unsubstantiated report.
St. Mary's School Board President Sal Raspa told ST. MARY'S TODAY that if this turns out to be a false report that the board has already set into motion procedures for such a false report to be sent to the States Attorney's Office for prosecution.  "This is crazy," said Raspa.  "The police are all over the place, the deputies are even there from Calvert County and all of our students are secure while the police are working their way through the school."
A Sheriff's Dept. awards ceremony was scheduled to take place at the same time and has been canceled while officers swarm to the high school.

The Tech Center, Leonardtown Middle School, the special school for criminal kids known as the Alternative Learning Center and Leonardtown High were all shut down over a report from two kids and a loopy adult about a gun the cops couldn't find.  Here students are shown waiting to board a school bus after the wasted day was over.  At right, fearful parents await word of hours-long tense lockdown as police searched the school twice and found nothing.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Ahmar Khan.