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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. 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. The hip-hop mogul was arrested in Los Angeles just after midnight Thursday. PHOTOS: Celebrity Mugshots 
 
 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. 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. 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. He was released in 2001, but in 2003, he was sent to jail again for violating parole when he struck a parking lot attendant.
– 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.