Charged with assault and drug possession
LAS VEGAS -- Rap euphony mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was captive Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of whacking his girl while brandishing a tongue, police said.
Knight, 43, the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records in Los Angeles, was arrested around 6:40 a.m. on a busy street near the Las Vegas Strip. Police responding to a domestic violence yell found Knight standing all over his longtime girlfriend with the knife in his hand.
"He did not stab her," aforementioned officer Jacinto Rivera, a department spokesman.
Police did not release the identity of the adult female, 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 interpreted into hold without incident and engaged into the Clark County jail on felony charges of assault with a deadly artillery and possession of a controlled essence, and infringement 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, world Health Organization are representing Knight, aforementioned they wanted to gather information about the pick up and talk with Knight before commenting.
Rivera said Knight would be held at the poky for at least 12 hours on the domestic violence charge.
It was not clear whether Knight would appear in person when a judge was scheduled to review his hold back Thursday morning.
Police said Knight and the woman argued in the car patch Knight was driving ahead he allegedly punched her in the head.
"The victim purposely grabbed the guidance wheel and caused the vehicle to hit the curb," police said in a statement. Police aforesaid the char 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 imprisoned for five years in 1996 for violating that probation.
He was returned to jail in 2003 for again violating parole for punching a parking concomitant at a Hollywood night club. He was released the next year.
Knight was wounded during a shooting at a party in a Miami club in August 2005.
His former record party was auctioned in June for $24 million to New York-based Global Music Group Inc.
Daniel McCarthy, a lawyer handling a Chapter 11 failure protection filing for Knight and the record company, said Wednesday that the sale is pending.
Death Row Records was known for releasing seminal gangster whack albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, and sold tens of millions of albums in the heyday of early nineties rap.
In 2006, a federal judge ordered a bankruptcy trustee takeover of Death Row Records, saying the label had undergone megascopic mismanagement. Knight's decision to file for bankruptcy tribute staved off a move by the court to appoint mortal to deal control of the record label and his assets.
Tuesday 9 September 2008
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