A Las Vegas police officer has been arrested on kidnapping and several domestic violence charges, the second such arrest for a Metropolitan Police Department officer within the past month.

Philippe Dinh, 31, faces three counts of coercion constituting domestic violence with threat or use of physical force; two counts each of kidnapping second degree and domestic battery; and one count each of domestic battery by strangulation; assault constituting domestic violence, with use of a deadly weapon; domestic battery with use of a deadly weapon; and coercion constituting domestic violence, according to a Metro news release.

With Metro since 2021, Dinh was assigned to the Community Safety Division, Southeast Area Command. Dinh will be placed on suspension of police powers without pay pending fu

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