City officials ultimately decided to stay with the Sheriff’s Department and talked about selling the equipment to help with a $39 million budget deficit. Marcel Melanson, 37, was arrested Wednesday without incident at his Torrance home on charges of felony arson and grand theft, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Melnyk was a firefighter with the Town of Little Compton from October 2, 1996, until his termination on March 6, 2019. The fire caused extensive damage to the building.Ĭompton officials had purchased the radios when the city was planning to switch from Sheriff’s Department law enforcement coverage to its own municipal department. lasdhq Central Patrol Division Chief Wych, comptonlasd Captain Bell. Melanson, who was a member of the Compton Fire Department for over 15 years, is accused of setting a fire. 11, 2011, to $1.1 million worth of radio and communications equipment stored in a racquetball court at the Compton Fire Department headquarters. The plaintiff, Fred Melnyk, a former firefighter for the Town of Little Compton, brought this action in the wake of his termination in 2019, alleging that the defendants, Town of Little Compton (the Town), its Fire Chief Richard Petrin, and its Town Council President Robert Mushen, breached. The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Official Compton Station Sheriffs. Friday, LOS ANGELES Marcel Melanson, 37, was arrested at his home. He also was ordered to pay another $417,477 to the city of Compton. Melanson, who pleaded no contest on April 15 to embezzlement by a public or private officer and arson of property, paid $100,000 in restitution to his victims and the city of Compton at the proceeding. Judge David Horwitz sentenced Melanson on Monday in Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles. Marcel Dione Melanson, 38, also was ordered to register with his local police department as an arson offender for the rest of his life, prosecutors said.
A former Compton fire battalion chief from Torrance who was featured in a television reality show about firefighting has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for setting his own department headquarters ablaze to cover up his theft of radios he sold on the Internet, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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