Post by Logan on Feb 12, 2016 4:09:38 GMT -6
Former UNC Board of Governors chairman arrested after gun found at airport
Charlotte lawyer John Fennebresque, the former UNC Board of Governors chairman, was arrested Thursday after authorities found a small handgun in his briefcase as he passed through a security checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers arrested Fennebresque at 10 a.m. at checkpoint B, charging him with misdemeanor possession of a firearm on city property, CMPD and Mecklenburg County jail records show.
He was released on $500 bail, according to the records.
Reached by the Observer later Thursday, Fennebresque said he didn’t know the gun was in the briefcase. “It was an honest, stupid mistake,” he said.
He said he had taken his wife and adult children to a class at a Matthews firing range Sunday so they could get their concealed-carry permits. He had removed four guns from a gun safe in his house and put them in the briefcase.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article59789671.html
Charlotte lawyer John Fennebresque, the former UNC Board of Governors chairman, was arrested Thursday after authorities found a small handgun in his briefcase as he passed through a security checkpoint at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers arrested Fennebresque at 10 a.m. at checkpoint B, charging him with misdemeanor possession of a firearm on city property, CMPD and Mecklenburg County jail records show.
He was released on $500 bail, according to the records.
Reached by the Observer later Thursday, Fennebresque said he didn’t know the gun was in the briefcase. “It was an honest, stupid mistake,” he said.
He said he had taken his wife and adult children to a class at a Matthews firing range Sunday so they could get their concealed-carry permits. He had removed four guns from a gun safe in his house and put them in the briefcase.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article59789671.html