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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 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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 Former US rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has pleaded no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charge over a hit-and-run incident in 2015. 
 
 The Death Row Records founder made the plea to avoid charges of murdering one man and attempting to murder a second with his pick-up truck in Los Angeles. 
 
 Knight will be formally sentenced to 28 years in prison in October. 
 
 His record label helped launch the careers of artists including Dr Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. 
 
 The 2015 incident happened after an argument over the making of Straight Outta Compton, a biopic about rap group NWA. 
 
 Under Californian state law, a no contest plea is the legal equivalent of a guilty plea. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Knight was facing possible life in prison if found guilty as originally charged 
 
 As part of the agreement, the murder charges against Knight, 53, will be dismissed by prosecutors, along with separate criminal cases charging him with robbery and making criminal threats. 
 
 The deal, in which Knight admitted using a "deadly and dangerous weapon" when he ran down two men with his vehicle, calls for him to serve 22 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter with a further six years added because of the US "three-strikes" law relating to repeated violations. 
 
 Had Knight been found guilty of murder as originally charged, he would have faced life in prison, prosecutors said. 
 
 Who is Suge Knight? 
 
 Knight co-founded Death Row Records with the pioneering producer Dr Dre in the 1990s, but later declared bankruptcy and the company was sold at auction for $24m (£16.7m). 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sales and profits for Knight's Death Row Records declined after he was imprisoned in 1996 
 
 Knight has a history of legal problems. He spent time in jail in 1997 and 2003 for parole violations arising from assault charges. He later pleaded guilty to hitting his girlfriend in an incident in 2008. 
 
 While his label was initially very successful, his fortunes began to slide in 1996 when rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in the passenger seat of Knight's car. 
 
 In 1997, rival rapper Biggie Smalls was shot and Knight was sued for wrongful death. Smalls' estate claimed that Knight had ordered the killing in revenge for Shakur's death. Knight denied it and the suit was dismissed. 
 
 What happened in the hit-and-run? 
 
 The charge relates to an incident in January 2015 in Compton, a suburb of Los Angeles. 
 
 Knight was accused of deliberately running over two men with his pick-up truck outside a hamburger restaurant following an argument on the set of a commercial for Straight Outta Compton. 
 
 One of the victims, Terry Carter, died of his injuries while the other, Cle "Bone" Sloan, suffered serious injuries to his feet and head. 
 
 Footage of the incident captured by security cameras show Knight's vehicle pulling up to the drive-in shop, with one of the victims approaching the driver's side window. Following what appears to be a brief discussion, a struggle then ensues. 
 
 Knight's truck is seen going into reverse, throwing the man to the ground. It then moves forward, driving over his legs and slams into the other victim, who was killed. 
 
 Knight turned himself in to authorities a day after the incident. His attorneys had said he was acting in self-defence and was fleeing armed attackers when he ran over Mr Carter and Mr Sloan. 
 
 Mr Sloan has denied claims he was carrying a gun during the confrontation.
– 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.