LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – We’re learning more about the accusations against a Las Vegas Metropolitan police sergeant arrested Friday for alleged abuses of power.
FOX5 obtained the arrest report, which accuses Kevin Menon of unlawful detainment and even leading to some arrests.
The report details multiple incidents of Menon ordering arrests without probable cause often following confrontations instigated by Menon.
In one incident, on May 5, Menon is also accused of shoving an officer, who was making a legal arrest, after he didn’t recognize Menon in plain clothes.
According to the arrest report, Sgt. Menon was approaching a scene unrelated to him. He was in plain clothes.
Officer Brett Flygare was monitoring the scene near where someone was detained when Menon was walking up. Flygare was putting his hand up to stop Menon when Sgt. Menon then used his right hand to shove Flyare in the chest.
Menon says “I’m the [expletive] sergeant you idiot.” Flygare says “Are you? I don’t know who you are.” Menon replies “Yeah dumba**. Now go get hobbies.”
The sergeant is also accused of telling officers to lie on their reports about these incidents.
On May 3, Menon saw a “person of interest” and intentionally shoulder-checked them with the intent to elicit a response.
Menon was in plain clothes and did not have anything on him to identify him as an officer. Menon’s subordinates did not indicate Menon shoulder-checked the person arrested in the report drafted following the incident. When it was time for Menon to approve the report, he told his officers to add that the suspect bumped into another person on the bridge thus leading to the intervention by Menon – he says he believes it could’ve escalated.
Menon has been charged with a dozen counts, including multiple counts of “Oppression under color of office” and “Subornation of perjury.”
He has been booked into the Clark County Detention Center.
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