: LAS VEGAS – Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife, police said.
Knight, 43, the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records in Los Angeles, was arrested about 6:40 a.m. on a busy street near the Las Vegas Strip. Police responding to a domestic violence call found Knight standing over his longtime girlfriend with the knife in his hand.
"He did not stab her," said Officer Jacinto Rivera, a department spokesman.
Police did not release the identity of the woman, who told officers she was Knight's girlfriend of three years.The woman was treated at a hospital for minor injuries, according to Rivera.
Knight was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Clark County jail on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a controlled substance, and misdemeanor charges of possession of dangerous drugs without a prescription and domestic violence.
Knight had the drugs Ecstasy and hydrocodone when he was arrested, police said.
Lawyers David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, who are representing Knight, said they wanted to gather information about the arrest and talk with Knight before commenting.
Rivera said Knight would be held at the jail for at least 12 hours on the domestic violence charge.
It was not immediately clear if Knight would appear in person when a judge was scheduled to review his arrest Thursday morning.
Police said Knight and the woman argued in the car while Knight was driving before he allegedly punched her in the head.
"The victim purposely grabbed the steering wheel and caused the vehicle to hit the curb," police said in a statement. Police said the woman tried to run away, but Knight caught her.
Knight has a history of legal problems and was with Tupac Shakur when the rapper was gunned down in Las Vegas in 1996.
Knight was convicted of assault in 1992 and placed on probation, then jailed for five years in 1996 for violating that probation.
He was returned to jail in 2003 for again violating parole for punching a parking attendant at a Hollywood nightclub. He was released the next year.
Knight was wounded during a shooting at a party in a Miami nightclub in August 2005.
His former record company was auctioned in June for $24 million to New York-based Global Music Group Inc.
Daniel McCarthy, a lawyer handling a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing for Knight and the record company, said Wednesday that the sale is pending.
Death Row Records was known for releasing seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, and sold tens of millions of albums in the heyday of early 1990s rap.
In 2006, a federal judge ordered a bankruptcy trustee takeover of Death Row Records, saying the label had undergone gross mismanagement. Knight's decision to file for bankruptcy protection staved off a move by the court to appoint someone to take control of the record label and his assets.
Hm... Las Vegas seems like a nice place to get busted. We're a little too over the limit now are we Suge? Perhaps Mister Tupac Shakur is trying to tell us something here?? Suge arrested 2008>Las Vegas>1996 shooting= Murder Accusation?? I mean, dont get me wrong Im not saying Suge did it, but doesnt it sound a little fishy that Suge got arrested in the same city as Tupac died? Looks like we're re-living 1996 in a way.
WTF? AINT THIS THE SAME NIGGGA THAT GOT KNOCKED OUT COLD BY A LITTLE DUDE??? SO OK I SEE HE WONT FIGHT A MAN BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE'LL GET THAT AZZ TAPPED SO HE BEATS WOMEN...SOUNDS LIKE A BYTCH TO ME. THAT NIGGGA BELONGS DEEP IN JAIL. THROW AWAY THE KEY HE WONT STOP TRIPPING. SHYT SEND THAT FOOL TO A WAR SOMEWHERE OR SOMETHING, CAN HE BE DEPORTED. NO ONE WILL MISS HIM
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KNIGHT, MARION H 43 Black Male 08F17926X ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON Active 8/27/2008 N $10,000.00 $10,000.00 Call (702) 671-5700 10 48 HOUR HEARING 8/28/2008 7:30 AM 00915915 KNIGHT, MARION H 43 Black Male 08F17926X POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE Active 8/27/2008 N $3,000.00 $3,000.00 Call (702) 671-5700 10 48 HOUR HEARING 8/28/2008 7:30 AM 00915915 KNIGHT, MARION H 43 Black Male 08F17926X POSSESSION DANGEROUS DRUG W/O PRESCRIPTI Active 8/27/2008 N $3,000.00 $3,000.00 Call (702) 671-5700 10 48 HOUR HEARING 8/28/2008 7:30 AM 00915915 KNIGHT, MARION H 43 Black Male 08F17926X BATTERY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NO PRIOR CONVI Active 8/27/2008 N $3,000.00 $3,000.00 Call (702) 671-5700 10 48 HOUR HEARING 8/28/2008 7:30 AM ************************************************** **************************************************
Ok...I don't know who wants to hang wit this negro. He likes trouble and when he ain't looking for trouble it finds him. Suge should just become a recluse. Mzsxylady somebody did kick his ass a while back he got knocked out. That was just more trouble following him. My warning to people if u see this man and he is across the street from you run because trouble is not far behind.
Now look at this b!tch made nicca. Can someone lock his b!tch a$$ up and throw away the key? Only a p^ssy mofo would get dropped by a dude then turn around and beat his girl. And why in da hell is she with him? Did she not see that video of Suge in the club, dancing with a girl while choking her? Or was she the girl in the video? She's a dumb hoe.
