Quality Processing Inc

The co-owner of a Sun Valley metal plating firm was being held in lieu of $555,000 bail Tuesday on felony charges that his company dumped potentially lethal amounts of cyanide and heavy metals into the Los Angeles sewer system. Jack Meltzer, 53, whose company, Quality Processing Inc., has contracts with large aerospace firms, faces 17 counts involving the discharge of waste from an illegal pipe connected directly to the sewer system, head Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael Delaney said.

The owner of a Sun Valley electroplating company was ordered this week to stand trial on charges of dumping cyanide and other toxins into city sewers. Jack Meltzer, 53, owner of Quality Processing Co., faces 16 counts of illegal dumping, including 10 felonies, as well as fines of more than $1 million, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Anthony Patchett, a prosecutor in the county's Environmental Crimes unit.

The co-owner of a Sun Valley metal-plating firm that has contracts with large aerospace companies was being held in lieu of $555,000 bail Tuesday on felony charges that his company dumped potentially lethal amounts of cyanide and heavy metals into the Los Angeles sewer system. Jack Meltzer, 53, and his company, Quality Processing Inc., face 17 counts involving discharging waste from an illegal pipe connected directly to the sewer system, said Head Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael Delaney.

A Superior Court judge is expected to rule today on whether the owner of a Sun Valley company should stand trial for allegedly funneling cyanide and untreated metals into the city sewer system. Prosecutors think he should, saying that more than enough evidence was unveiled during a preliminary hearing last week to try 53-year-old Jack Meltzer on charges that his electroplating firm, Quality Processing Co., illegally channeled poisonous waste through a pipe connected to the sewers. Deputy Dist.

The owner of a Sun Valley electroplating company was ordered this week to stand trial on charges of dumping cyanide and other toxins into city sewers. Jack Meltzer, 53, owner of Quality Processing Co., faces 16 counts of illegal dumping, including 10 felonies, as well as fines of more than $1 million, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Anthony Patchett, a prosecutor in the county's Environmental Crimes unit.

A Superior Court judge is expected to rule today on whether the owner of a Sun Valley company should stand trial for allegedly funneling cyanide and untreated metals into the city sewer system. Prosecutors think he should, saying that more than enough evidence was unveiled during a preliminary hearing last week to try 53-year-old Jack Meltzer on charges that his electroplating firm, Quality Processing Co., illegally channeled poisonous waste through a pipe connected to the sewers. Deputy Dist.

The co-owner of a Sun Valley metal-finisher business was sentenced Tuesday to a year in Los Angeles County Jail and fined $100,000 for dumping hazardous chemicals into the city sewer system, authorities said. Jack Meltzer, co-owner and operator of Quality Processing Inc., was sentenced after being found guilty by a Los Angeles criminal court judge earlier this year, a clerk at the county district attorney's office said. Meltzer could not be reached for comment.

By habit, I walked into the Criminal Courts Building before I realized I was in the wrong place. The courtroom I was seeking, the case with 11 felonies, was in another courthouse, not in this building where O.J. Simpson is on trial for two felonies. On the sidewalk outside the right courthouse is a stencil above a curbside storm drain. Its chalk-blue caution encircles a fish skeleton. "This drains to ocean--no dumping."

There are 37 industrial firms within the city of Los Angeles that violated federal and local pre-treatment standards by discharging illegal amounts of cyanide, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, silver, zinc and oil and grease in 1989, the most recent year available, according to the Department of Public Works. Eleven of the firms have violated federal pre-treatment standards; the other 26 have violated local discharge standards.

The co-owner of a Sun Valley metal plating firm was being held in lieu of $555,000 bail Tuesday on felony charges that his company dumped potentially lethal amounts of cyanide and heavy metals into the Los Angeles sewer system. Jack Meltzer, 53, whose company, Quality Processing Inc., has contracts with large aerospace firms, faces 17 counts involving the discharge of waste from an illegal pipe connected directly to the sewer system, head Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael Delaney said.

The co-owner of a Sun Valley metal-plating firm that has contracts with large aerospace companies was being held in lieu of $555,000 bail Tuesday on felony charges that his company dumped potentially lethal amounts of cyanide and heavy metals into the Los Angeles sewer system. Jack Meltzer, 53, and his company, Quality Processing Inc., face 17 counts involving discharging waste from an illegal pipe connected directly to the sewer system, said Head Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael Delaney.