A woman has stepped forward to allege that embattled Charlotte City Council member Warren Turner, posing as a city building inspector, shown a gun to three laborers last year and ordered them to stop working on a building.

Turner is a state probations officer and does carry a gun. But in an interview with the Charlotte Observer, his lawyer denied that Turner posed as a building inspector or did anything wrong.

The lawyer, Eric Montgomery, said his client went to a site where a building was being repaired after a constituent complained that work was being done there without a permit. He said the construction workers may have seen Turner's gun when his jacket inadvertently opened.

The latest allegations against the west Charlotte councilman came just days after an investigator hired by the city found evidence to believe that Turner made inappropriate remarks to five women who work for the city. The report also concluded that Turner, who denied the allegations, was not believable.

On Tuesday, in response to the city's findings, the N.C. Department of Correction reassigned Turner to a desk job that requires no contact with probationers. He also was required to turn over his state-issued car and gun until further notice.

Read more at CharlotteObserver.com.
 

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