Former WLAD Personality Vinnie James Melillo has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Melillo  is best remembered as the Host of the "Vinnie James Bargain Express" where listeners called in to banter with him and to sell or trade used items.  WLAD's CEO and General Manager Irv Goldstein says he was a huge personality and a real larger than life character.

Melillo also had a long career on the sales side of the sanitation business. 

Funeral details are not yet available.  Vinnie James Melillo dead at the age of 74.