Heavily armed and kitted out in armor, this is the tense moment SWAT teams surrounded the home of Las Vegas official Robert Telles moments before he was arrested on murder charges.

The exclusive DailyMail.com footage shows cops preparing to smash down the door of Telles' $660,000 home on Wednesday evening.

Neighbors told DailyMail.com that police climbed over their fence to access the garden of the four-bedroom home that the 45-year-old shares with his wife Mae and their three children.

They also said two SWAT teams had been involved in the raid and that a robot was sent in first.

Telles, who has since been charged with murdering reporter Jeff German, 69, was alone inside the home at the time and was later wheeled out on a stretcher after stabbing himself several times.

After being treated in hospital for 'minor' wounds, the ex-Clark County Public Administrator was booked into the Clark County Detention Center late on Wednesday night.

A mugshot released this morning shows him grimacing and dressed in a navy-blue prison-issue uniform.

His arms bandaged, Telles appeared briefly in court on Thursday afternoon to be arraigned on murder charges and was ordered held without bail.