Bail set at $200,000 for couple accused in attack on crossing guard

A judge set bail Thursday at $200,000 each for a man and woman charged in an attack on a 64-year-old school crossing guard.

Adam Kondrat was driving about 50 mph and cutting off other vehicles in a school zone Monday morning near Gehring Elementary School, at Maryland Parkway near Silverado Ranch Boulevard, when a crossing guard forced him to stop, according to his arrest report.

Kondrat, 21, got out of his car and attacked the guard, Dano McKay, kicking and punching him until he fell to the ground and dropped his stop sign, a witness told police.

Kondrat’s girlfriend, 22-year-old Sabrina J. Torres, then picked up the stop sign and handed it to Kondrat, witnesses told police. Kondrat looked like he was going to hit McKay with the sign when a retired police sergeant intervened.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Giancarlo Pesci, who asked Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen to deny bail for the defendants, said Kondrat and Torres were “clearly a danger to this community.”

Prior to encountering McKay, Kondrat sped past another crossing guard who tried to get him to slow down, Pesci said.

Robert Gibbs, a railroad police officer, was on his motorcycle driving to his daughter’s high school when he saw Kondrat get out of his car, walk up to McKay and punch him in the face.

Kondrat was on top of the crossing guard, punching him repeatedly, when the 55-year-old Gibbs approached and tried to stop Kondrat. Torres then jumped on Gibbs’ back to pull him away from her boyfriend.

That’s when Kondrat used his finger to “fishhook” the side of Gibbs’ face, ripping the corner of his mouth, “leaving him disfigured,” Pesci said.

Both Kondrat and Torres are charged with conspiracy to commit battery, battery with substantial bodily harm and mayhem. Kondrat also faces two counts of battery on a protected person, along with one count each of battery, battery by a prisoner, intimidating a public officer and resisting a public officer.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson watched the hearing from the courtroom gallery. Afterward, he called Kondrat and Torres “menaces” and said he planned to “target” the defendants.

“We intend to put a full press in our prosecution of both of these defendants, especially Mr. Kondrat,” Wolfson said. “He has proven to be a menace to society, and we intend to punish him accordingly.”

Kondrat also has a preliminary hearing next month in a robbery case and a domestic battery charge filed in August. He is also facing a probation violation in a DUI case from last year.

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