18-month closure of part of First Street starts soon

A short stretch of First Street in downtown Las Vegas will close for 18 months beginning next week as crews start construction on the city’s $56 million municipal courthouse.

First Street, from East Clark to East Bonneville avenues, will shut down to traffic and pedestrians on Monday — a one-block closure expected to last until February 2021, city officials said.

During the closure, motorists and pedestrians may use Main Street or any of the streets to the east as alternate routes.

The four-story Las Vegas Municipal Court building, which broke ground in late June, will be built at 100 E. Clark Ave., near City Hall. The city will move municipal court operations out of the Regional Justice Center once the new courthouse is completed.

The project is being funded by bond proceeds and money paid to Las Vegas by Clark County to buy the city out of its Regional Justice Center lease. trafficking crime resulting in death. In late 2013, Matthews and his cousin John Thomas fatally shot Luciano Madrigalherrera at point-blank range in a North Las Vegas apartment during a drug deal gone bad, prosecutors said in a news release.

Matthews had recently been released from prison after being found guilty of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute. Matthews has several other felony convictions dating to 2004.

Prosecutors said he planned the

2013 arrangement to buy 20 pounds of marijuana from Madrigal-herrera, Angel Juarez and Julio Nunez.

Madrigal-herrera suffered seven gunshot wounds to the chest, and Matthews and Thomas then grabbed the marijuana and tried to run away, prosecutors said. Nunez chased after them with a shotgun, shooting Thomas in the back shoulder and causing him to drop the marijuana, the release stated.