Man With Weapons Surrenders at Motel : Standoff: After learning that he is wanted in a New Mexico slaying, police cordon off area and persuade him to come out.

An Albuquerque, N.M., man surrendered early Tuesday after holing up in a room in a beachside Ventura motel with guns and explosives, authorities said.

A police SWAT team evacuated the motel and cordoned off streets in the Pierpont neighborhood around the Shores Motel late Monday before negotiators eventually persuaded the man to leave his weapons behind and surrender.

Police arrested Paul Randall Cooper, 33, who is wanted by Albuquerque police in the fatal stabbing of a man found in Cooper’s apartment, said Albuquerque Police Lt. Chris Padilla.

Padilla said Cooper had called his sister in Malibu from Ventura on Monday afternoon.

“She asked him what was wrong,” Padilla said. “He said, ‘I killed somebody in Albuquerque.’ She notified Ventura police, who sent us a Teletype.”

Albuquerque police went to Cooper’s tiny studio apartment, where they found the body of a man, stabbed repeatedly and lying face down on the floor. Police still are trying to confirm his identity.

“There was blood everywhere,” Padilla said.

Albuquerque homicide detectives also found a homemade bomb in Cooper’s bathroom--a Mason jar full of some kind of explosive, Padilla said.

Padilla said Albuquerque police then notified Ventura police, who spotted the victim’s car in the parking lot of the Shores Motel at Seaward Avenue and Pierpont Boulevard just after 10 p.m.

After learning that someone matching Cooper’s description was checked into a motel room, police quietly evacuated the motel. They moved the guests to the nearby Inn at the Beach, owned by the same person who owns the Shores Motel, Lt. Don Arth said.

When police found that Cooper had left his phone off the hook, they called out with a bullhorn and persuaded him to talk to them by phone about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Arth said.

At first, Cooper refused to come out, saying he was armed and had explosives, Arth said. Police summoned the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad and kept talking to Cooper, Arth said.

Police talked Cooper into surrendering peacefully by 7:45 a.m. They then searched the motel room and seized two handguns, a long-barreled rifle, a suspected pipe bomb and a quantity of black powder.

Ventura police questioned Cooper about the slaying in New Mexico, Padilla said.