Gypsum, KANSAS

Dec 22, 2007 - Southeast of Saline School Board member Gary Olson, 43, was arrested - again - on a criminal threat charge. He was arrested in September for threatening to "do a Columbine" at his district's school.

Olson faces trial next month on aggravated criminal threat and other charges related to a Sept. 5 incident. Olson is accused of threatening to harm his wife, Connie, and of going to Southeast of Saline School to "do a Columbine." The school was locked down for several hours after the incident, as authorities looked for Olson.

His wife was a teacher at the school. She has resigned.

Gary Olson remains a member of the school board, but he is barred from participating in board meetings and other school district events as a condition of his probation. [Probation from what isn't clear. Perhaps they mean, "bail"?]

Olson's attorney told the newspaper that he advised Olson to turn himself in, "so some trigger-happy deputy doesn't draw down on him and shoot him."

TRIALS SCHEDULED Jan 24, 2008 - A judge ordered Gary Olson, 43, of Gypsum, to stand trial May 8 in the case involving the county official and April 9 in the school threat case.

Southeast of Saline Unified School District 306 Board of Education site.
(Only the minutes to one board meeting are online.)