The L.A. County Sheriff's deputy who famously arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 for DUI is about to be fired ... TMZ has learned.
Sources tell us ... Deputy James Mee
has received a letter stating that the Sheriff's Dept. intends to give
him the boot for allegedly violating procedure by engaging in a
high-speed pursuit that ended in a fiery explosion.
Mee and his lawyer, Richard Shinee, have accused the Sheriff's Dept of retaliating against the Deputy because Sheriff Lee Baca
believes Mee is the one who leaked 4 pages of Mel's arrest report to
TMZ. Mee's superiors had ordered the deputy to remove the 4 pages,
which contained a blow-by-blow of Mel's anti-Semitic tirade on Pacific
Coast Highway. The Sheriff's Dept. repeatedly told TMZ ... Mel was
arrested "without incident" and no anti-Semitic remarks were uttered.
The
incident that triggered the firing occurred on June 17, 2011, when Mee
attempted to stop a driver who was allegedly drunk. The driver, who was
traveling around 30 mph, gunned it and was going more than 100 mph when
his car skidded into a gas station, hitting 2 pumps which triggered an
explosion. Check out the security footage.
