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August 27, 2008
Suge Knight Arrested In Las Vegas
It is almost hard to beleive that Marion “Suge” Knight was arrested yet again. He was jailed on Wednesday on assult and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife near the Las Vegas strip, police said.
The 43-year-old Knight was released late on Wednesday after he posted $19,000 bail and promised to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on September 26th a court spokeswoman said.
Police arrested the bankrupt co-founder of Death Row Records after they arrived at the scene of a traffic accident and found Knight hitting a woman in a nearby parking lot at 6:45am. The woman identified herself as Knight’s girlfriend of three years.
Police Lt. Chris Carroll said a witness called police to the scene after seeing Knight beating the lady. “It’s a solid case” said police. The woman was not stabbed but was treated for some injuries that were not life threatining.
“This is a very large man,” Carroll said, estimating his weight at more than twice the woman’s. “He was on top of her, actually in the act of violently beating her when the officers arrived, with the knife in his hand.”
The woman told police that Knight punched her in the head during an argument while he was driving with her in the automobile. In an effort to escape, the girlfriend grabbed the steering wheel causing the vehicle to hit a curb and come to an abrupt stop, then she fled with Knight in pursuit, police said.
Knight had the drugs Ecstasy and hydrocodone when he was arrested, Carroll said, but it was not clear whether he or the woman had used drugs or alcohol before the arrest.
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 and 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, Florida, 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 it 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.
