Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault
and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while
brandishing a knife, police said.
Knight, 43, the founder of Death Row Records, was arrested early in the morning on a busy street near the Las Vegas Strip. Police responding to a domestic violence call found Knight standing over his longtime girlfriend with the knife in his hand.
"He did not stab her," said Officer Jacinto Rivera, a department spokesman. Police did not release the identity of the woman, 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 taken into custody without incident and booked into the Clark County jail on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a controlled substance, and misdemeanor 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.
