A pistillate has been arrested aft constabulary received a study of suspicious item Monday successful a parking store adjacent the Regional Justice Center.
Jessica Vazquez, 33, was booked Monday astatine the Clark County Detention Center connected 2 felony counts of communicating a weaponry threat. The Metropolitan Police Department has not released details of wherefore Vazquez was arrested, but jailhouse records amusement she was booked nether a constabulary lawsuit fig generated for the constabulary effect to the parking store straight crossed the thoroughfare from the courthouse connected Lewis Avenue.
Police said they received accusation of a suspicious point successful the store astatine 10:07 a.m. Monday. For hours, stretches of Third and Fourth streets were closed successful the downtown country arsenic a peculiar constabulary portion investigated. They streets remained closed until conscionable earlier 3 p.m. erstwhile constabulary said without mentation that they were reopening roads and the garage.
Dozens of radical spent hours waiting to get to their cars astatine the store aft doing concern astatine the justness center.
One was Stephen Cook, who had parked successful the store crossed from the courthouse and went into the gathering to instrumentality attraction of a ticket. He emerged to spot a dense constabulary presence.
“I travel retired and I announcement immoderate portion preventing anybody from entering the garage,” helium said.
By 1 p.m. he’d been lasting astir for astir an hr but inactive couldn’t get to his vehicle.
“Just gotta wait,” helium said. “Could beryllium different hour, 2 hours. Who knows. I’m trying to get to work.”
Vazquez was scheduled to marque an archetypal quality successful Las Vegas tribunal Tuesday morning.
Contact Glenn Puit astatine gpuit@reviewjournal.com.
Woman charged aft suspicious point closes downtown parking garage
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