Lynwood is negotiating with the county after a citywide vote on a similar switch. Within the last year and a half, Covina, El Monte and Hawthorne have dissolved their fire departments in favor of county services. Recent disagreements over disbanding city fire departments in favor of county contracts have split communities across the county as more cities consider the switch. Union officials said they are regrouping for another attempt. The union learned about two weeks ago that its petition for an initiative on November’s ballot failed by 600 signatures. Taylor was on vacation Wednesday, but Fonza said the charges against the police chief are false. Taylor is accused of trailing one union activist who was gathering signatures. The suit also names the city and Compton Police Chief Hourie Taylor as defendants. Prosecutors rejected the case for lack of evidence, said Brian Wooldridge, assistant head deputy of the district attorney’s special investigations division. Investigators considered the incident a pushing and grappling match over the petitions rather than an assault, he said. Do you want to sell a rig? Click HERE to find out how with alleged assault was investigated by the Compton Police Department and a report of its findings handed over to the district attorney’s office, a Compton police official said. Whitmore said Melanson was terminated from the department as a result of the investigation into the fire. Times in 2009.Ĭompton city officials could not be reached for comment.
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Melanson was featured on the BET reality series “First In” and profiled by the L.A. “We don’t know what happened, but we do think it’s connected,” Whitmore said. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Melanson had allegedly stolen some of the police equipment and then set the fire to cover up the theft.
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The radios were in storage, to be used for a communications upgrade in connection with a now abandoned plan to re-establish Compton’s police department.Ībby Sewell & Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times: “As the investigation unfolded, we began to realize that they were connected, and we realized that the fire itself was a mask to try to cover up the fact that the radios were missing,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Steve Whitmore. Melanson, who was a member of the Compton Fire Department for over 15 years, is accused of setting a fire at the headquarters of the Compton Fire Department in December of 2011 to destroy evidence of a theft. Marcel Melanson, 37, was arrested at his home. Then, authorities said, the 15-year veteran of the department is suspected of setting fire to the department headquarters to destroy the evidence. Investigators believe Melanson stole thousands of dollars in Motorola radios from his employer and sold them online. Now Melanson is a former deputy chief and is in jail.Ī Compton firefighter is expected to appear in court Friday to face charges he allegedly set his fire department’s headquarters ablaze in an effort to destroy evidence of his suspected theft.Ī former deputy chief, Melanson was taken into custody in connection with a suspicious fire at the Compton Fire Department Headquarters on Dec. The Fire Critic even wrote about Melanson’s profile in Inked Magazine. He was also featured in a Los Angeles Times profile. We first mentioned him in October 2009, as did and Fire. Click here to follow on F acebook (hit “like”)ĭo you recall Marcel Melanson? The heavily tattooed Compton Fire Department deputy chief was the star of his own reality series on BET called “First In”.
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