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TONOPAH -- Las Vegas Metro Officers Thursday, apprehended Jeffrey Schilling, 48, a suspect in the murder of Denise Adams, 54, of Tonopah.

He is being held on $1 million bail.

The Las Vegas Metro Police Department received an anonymous tip Schilling had checked in to the Union Plaza Hotel on Main Street. Detectives contacted hotel security personnel to confirm the report. Once the room was identified, detectives approached the room at 9:10 a.m., knocked on the door and Schilling answered, Sgt. Dave Stansbury of the Las Vegas Metro criminal apprehension team said in a news release.

Schilling was arrested on a murder warrant by members of the Criminal Apprehension Team, a federal task force comprised of investigators from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Henderson Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation along with the Las Vegas Metro Fugitive Squad. He was taken into custody without incident, Metro reported.

It was the first murder in Tonopah since the killing of Tom Rush on Nov. 24, 2001.

Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said deputies traveled from Pahrump to Las Vegas Thursday to transfer Schilling to the county jail in Tonopah.

Adams, a longtime Tonopah resident, had not been seen for about a week. She had been sharing her house with Schilling, who was described by neighbors as "kind of hippie-looking." Schilling had reportedly been telling people Adams was "asleep" or "in the shower" during the week prior to his departure from Tonopah around mid-morning Sunday.

At that time, according to information released from the sheriff's office, Schilling caught a ride to Las Vegas.

At 6:15 p.m. Sunday sheriff's Dep. Mark Kiburis, Sgt. Glen Kostiuk and Det. Duane Downing were dispatched to Adams' residence "for a report about a deceased person."

Sheriff's office personnel estimated that Adams had been "deceased for five to seven days," and found cause to believe she "had been intentionally killed in her residence."