LAS VEGAS -- A man is under arrest after a shoplifting incident turned into a barricade situation at a dentist office.

According to Metro Police, at around noon Tuesday, security at a Walmart store near Nellis Boulevard and Stewart Avenue noticed the suspect trying to steal some items from the store. When the guards confronted him in the parking lot, police say the suspect took out a pocket knife and threatened the guards.

Security guards followed the man, while they called police. The suspect then ran into a nearby dentist office and into the office bathroom, police said. He refused to come out.

Metro Police responded with SWAT, K9 officers and negotiators.

Police say the man surrendered to officers at around 1:45 p.m. No one was hurt.

LAS VEGAS -- A man has been arrested in California in connection with a murder in Las Vegas, Metro Police announced Thursday.

According to police, at around 12:19 a.m. Wednesday, dispatchers received a call from Los Angeles Police Department requesting officers check on a woman living in the 500 block of Elm Drive, which is near Paradise and Desert Inn roads.

LAPD said that a man had called them to report that he had killed his roommate at that location a few days earlier.

When officers arrived, they found a woman dead inside the residence.

Homicide detectives traveled to Los Angeles to talk to the man who had called police. After an investigation, police arrested 54-year-old Martin Skropeta on charges of murder. He is currently waiting to be extradited back to Las Vegas to face those charges.

The identity of the woman and her cause of death has not been released.

LAS VEGAS -- From the northwest to Henderson, neighborhoods across southern Nevada have seen flooding over the past week, and monsoon season has barely begun.

Experts say the best way to protect yourself and your property from the financial tolls of flood waters is to get your flood insurance.

Two years ago after a big flood at the Desert Rose Golf Course, FEMA came in and designated 1,700 homes and businesses in this area as being in a federal flood zone, which meant people living in the area had to get flood insurance.

However, 8 News NOW has learned that a lot of people in the community still aren't covered, and they could be putting themselves in a financial risk when the next big storm rolls around.

Conrad Gardner lives right behind the Desert Rose Golf Course and in the summer of 2012, flash floods resulted in many of the homes in his neighborhood going underwater.