As we previously reported, Bess fled from cops during a routine traffic stop in Arizona early Monday morning.
Cops tell us ... as they pursued Bess he rolled down his window and began making gestures with his hand shaped like a gun and motioning that he was shooting the officer.
Bess high-tailed it away from officers in his Mercedes -- but was tracked down at his home.
Inside his residence, cops say Bess would go to the window and front door -- flashing a knife to cops ... and occasionally hold it up to his own throat .