LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Channel 13 is learning more about the suspended Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sergeant under investigation in two criminal cases.

Sergeant Kevin Menon is charged with the set-up illegal arrests on the Las Vegas Strip and also faces charges for possession of child sexual abuse material.

On Friday, Menon’s attorney, Dominic Gentile, filed a motion opposing the state’s request to increase Menon’s bail.

Gentile argued that “the state has no good cause to request a bail increase” and “the nature and circumstances of the felony charge in this case weigh in favor of a reduced bond.”

Additionally, Gentile said that because Menon was a public employee, he could not post additional cash bail.

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“Higher and/or full cash bail would be entirely punitive,” Gentile wrote in the motion.

The motion states that Menon has been “nothing but cooperative since his arrest.”

Included in the move are images showing the aftermath of Menon’s home after Metro officers executed a search warrant.

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Gentile said subway officers showed indifference to Menon’s religion because his Yarmulke was found in the trash.

He asked if there was an increase in bail, it should be by way of surety and not just cash.

A letter written by Menon himself is also attached to the motion.

In it, he writes:

“I’m a 42-year-old, bi-racial, first-generation American. My father was born in British India where he became a doctor and served in the Indian Army before moving to the United States and serving as a captain in the United States Navy My mother was born in the Netherlands and worked as a nurse in a variety of functions. age 14…”

Menon said he has volunteered with the American Red Cross, International Committee of the Red Cross, Partners in Health, White Oak EMS and Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

After high school, Menon said he became an emergency medical technician in the Pittsburgh area before moving to New York to become a paramedic.

He said he met his now wife Natasha while working as a paramedic in New York and began converting to Judaism.

Menon said he accepted the LVMPD academy in March 2014 and was a recruit following the murders of fallen officers Igor Saldo and Alyn Beck.

“I sought permission to create and teach a basic law enforcement trauma life support class at my academy — being the only recruit in history to also teach during the academy,” Menon wrote.

Menon also said that he served in several specialized units, including the Gang Unit, Central Intelligence and Counterterrorism. He said he was promoted to sergeant in 2023 and was selected by Sheriff Kevin McMahill to represent the LVMPD in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, just months after his promotion.

“Upon my return to the US, I continued to work tirelessly within the local Jewish community as well as other community stakeholders to advance LVMPD’s mission to become the safest community in America,” said Menon.

He said he is fluent in Dutch, Egyptian Arabic and Hebrew and has a working knowledge of Haitian Creole, Swahili and Jamaican Patois.

He has been married to his wife for 10 years and hopes to be the father of at least two children.

State prosecutors want to raise Menon’s bail in his original case to $250,000 cash because they claim he is a danger to himself and the community. They also said he was a flight risk and sophisticated enough to erase evidence.

Prosecutors allege Menon deleted his data from his LVMPD-issued cellphone.

However, in this new motion, Gentile argued that Menon did not wipe his phone while in custody and said that “probably when the defense attorney gave the phone to his IT person to get a forensic image of to him”.

Gentile said Menon is not a flight risk because he has already surrendered his passport and firearms.

Menon is due back in court on Wednesday, November 6.