Police find child pornography on Las Vegas sergeant’s laptops amid unrelated investigation: docs

Kevin Menon allegedly downloaded child sexual abuse material, also known as child pornography, according to Las Vegas Metro police. The sergeant, who was previously indicted on accusations that he orchestrated faked arrests on the Las Vegas Strip, faces new charges related to possession of child pornography.

Detectives found numerous images of nude prepubescent girls on laptops Menon had access to, according to an arrest report obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators.

“The girls in the images were posed in a sexual manner,” the report stated.

Police said they found 18 child sexual abuse material images, 20 age-difficult images where the individuals appeared to be underage but that could not be confirmed, and 20 child erotica images described as files where children were clothed or partially clothed on a black MacBook Pro.

Police also found 20 child sexual abuse material images, 27 age-difficult images and 86 child erotica images on a silver MacBook Air, the report stated.

Menon downloaded child sexual abuse material and child erotica images from a Russian website, according to the report. The search history included terms like “teen pee,” and another which included the term, “pedo.”

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“It should be noted that ‘pedo’ is commonly used term that is shorthand for ‘pedophile,’” the arrest report stated.

Menon was taken into custody Wednesday as he walked into the Regional Justice Center for his initial arraignment on his first case.

Prosecutors filed two new charges of possession of visual presentation depicting sexual conduct of a child.

Metro police returned to Menon’s home Wednesday with another search warrant. More than a dozen officers were seen outside the North Las Vegas house while Menon’s wife waited in tears and then left with the family dog.

In his original case, Metro police arrested Menon on Friday, Aug. 30 at department headquarters. A grand jury indicted him on 13 charges for his alleged abuse of power while heading a special team on the strip.

Investigators within the department believe Menon orchestrated fake arrests by instigating situations with the public without probable cause, documents said. In one case, Menon ordered the search of a car without any reason, police said. In another, the sergeant, who often worked in a plain clothes capacity, intentionally collided with a person on a pedestrian bridge, leading to their arrest, police investigators allege.

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Most of the citizens seen on video who appeared to be targeted were Black men.

After his arrest, the department placed Menon on leave with pay and his police powers were suspended pending an investigation. The department has since stopped paying him.