LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A former Metro police sergeant is now serving his jail sentence at Excessive Desert State Jail, a maximum-security facility the place Nevada’s loss of life row inmates are housed and the place a string of inmate deaths have not too long ago occurred, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
Kevin Menon was transferred to the jail situated close to Indian Springs on Aug. 21, in response to the Nevada Division of Corrections.
On Aug. 4, Clark County District Courtroom Choose Ron Israel sentenced Menon to at the very least 4 years in jail for orchestrating phony arrests, which primarily focused males of colour, and a intercourse crime.
Menon pleaded responsible in Could to eight counts after a grand jury indicted him in three separate circumstances. The costs embrace oppression beneath the colour of workplace with quick menace or use of bodily drive, subornation of perjury, and capturing the picture of the non-public space of one other particular person.
Menon agreed to serve 4-10 years in jail as a part of the plea settlement. He will even must register as a intercourse offender upon his launch.
“I am not the man these charges reflect,” Menon stated in courtroom as Clark County District Courtroom Choose Ron Israel sentenced him. “For any harm I have done, I beg for forgiveness.”
Israel sentenced Menon to 4-10 years as per the plea, questioning why Menon accepted the plea if he maintained his innocence. The plea deal drastically lowered the period of time Menon may have spent in jail if the case had gone to trial and a jury had convicted him.
Within the first case, a grand jury indicted Menon for unlawful stops and searches of primarily Black males on the Las Vegas Strip whereas Menon labored as a sergeant in plain garments. Metro investigators stated Menon instigated conditions with the general public with out possible trigger. In a single case, Menon ordered the search of a automotive with none motive, police stated. In one other, the sergeant, who usually labored in a plain garments capability, deliberately collided with an individual on a pedestrian bridge, resulting in that man’s arrest.
After a search of Menon’s house associated to the primary case, police stated they discovered quite a few photos of kid sexual abuse materials on Menon’s units. This resulted within the second case.
Las Vegas police sergeant sentenced to jail for phony arrests, pornography
Police returned to Menon’s house, the place they discovered hidden cameras that Menon put in in a toilet to document members of the family utilizing the bathroom. This resulted within the third felony case.
Video proven to the grand jury in Menon’s first case exhibits Menon directing a crew of officers to focus on people, pulling maneuvers resembling a “shoulder check” to agitate the goal after which arrest him.
Menon’s spouse and sister-in-law, recognized as victims in his third felony case, have stayed by his facet by means of numerous courtroom appearances.
After his preliminary arrest, the division positioned Menon on depart with pay and suspended his police powers pending an investigation. The division later stopped paying him. Menon “separated” from Metro in June, a spokesperson stated.
FILE – Towers view over the Excessive Desert State Jail in Indian Springs, Nev., April 15, 2015. (AP Picture/John Locher, File)
Menon tried to have Israel faraway from the case, citing allegations of abuse from his grownup daughter. Israel issued a response stating he ought to stay on the case, however couldn’t talk about sure points about his daughter as a result of HIPAA. Clark County District Courtroom Chief Choose Jerry Wiese determined Israel ought to stay on the case.
Menon might be eligible for parole in 2029.
Excessive Desert State Jail is situated close to Indian Springs, which is a couple of 45-minute drive north of Las Vegas.
