Suge Knight, Death Row Records CEO, arrested by swarm of LAPD officers 
 
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 The hip-hop mogul was arrested in Los Angeles just after midnight Thursday. 
 
 Police did not say why they nabbed the Death Row Records founder, whose real name is Marion Knight, but he was a suspect the 2009 armed robbery of Los Angeles-based R&B/Hip Hop producer Noel "Detail" Fisher. 
 
 KTLA-TV showed footage of about a half a dozen police officers surrounding Knight's white Cadillac Escalade in Gardena, just east of Compton where he grew up. 
 
 Knight, 45, was placed in handcuffs and taken to the LAPD's Southwest Division. His lawyer did not return calls for comment, the station said. 
 
 It's not Knight's first brush with the law. 
 
 The producer, who along with Dr. Dre, discovered rapper Snoop Dogg, was jailed for five years in 1996 for violating probation he received for assault and weapons convictions in 1992. He was locked up again in 2003 for violating parole. 
 
 Knight was with legendary rapper Tupac Shakur the night he was shot to death in Las Vegas in 1996. 
 
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 Suge Knight Arrested, Assault with Deadly Weapon 
 
 TMZ has learned Suge Knight was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, involving a firearm. 
 
 He was pulled over and taken into custody early Thursday morning.We're told he was also taken into custody for driving on a suspended license.Knight is still in custody and bail is set at $65,000.: During a news conference moments ago, Cops said Knight was arrested in connection to an alleged crime that occurred shortly before his arrest ... but they wouldn't elaborate further. ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) 
 
 Marion “Suge” Knight, the legendary co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records, was arrested early Thursday in Gardena, California on a felony charge of committing assault with a deadly weapon, RadarOnline.com has learned. 
 
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 Los Angeles police said an unidentified person called Gardena police at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to report that they had witnessed Knight, 45, pulling a gun on a man in a public place. 
 
 California Highway Patrol officers, responding to the call, pulled over Knight in a white Cadillac Escalade on Crenshaw Blvd. and 147th St. in Gardena at around midnight on Thursday. 
 
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 Knight was then taken into custody on the assault charge, booked at the LAPD’s Southwest station and turned over to detectives, who are in the process of questioning him. Knight, also charged with driving on a suspended license, remained in custody Thursday on $65,000 bail. 
 
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 Knight’s record label, Death Row Records, rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre‘s breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound, the label struggled after Knight’s incarceration on parole violation charges in September 1996. 
 
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 In 1997, he was sentenced to nine years for the violation. He was released in 2001, but in 2003, he was sent to jail again for violating parole when he struck a parking lot attendant. Death Row Record’s income rapidly fell due to Knight’s imprisonment. It managed to save itself from complete bankruptcy by releasing archived SnoopDogg compilation albums and posthumous Tupac albums. Despite signing new artists, Suge has never released any of their albums. 
 
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– Suge Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records, was arrested early this morning in Los Angeles. In a news conference, cops said it was in connection with an alleged crime that occurred just before his arrest. TMZ and Radar report it was for assault with a deadly weapon—and that he was also driving with a suspended license. The New York Daily News notes that Knight is a suspect in the 2009 armed robbery of a hip-hop producer, and adds that he was pulled over and surrounded by about six police officers.