 Suge Knight: Got bail after arrest at Las Vegas
On Wednesday Suge Knight was arrested on assault and drug charges after he was charged of beating his girlfriend while wielding a knife near the Las Vegas Strip. The police have confirmed the news to the reporters.
More information about Suge Knight has been inferred from various sources. According to them, forty three year old Knight has posted 19,000 dollars bail and was scheduled to be released sometime on late Wednesday. He also made a promise of appearing on Sept. 26 in Las Vegas Justice Court. This bit of information has been inferred by a court spokeswoman.
As per the police report, Suge Knight, the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records, was nabbed at around 6:40 a.m. after the officers arrived at the scene of a minor traffic accident and found Knight beating a woman in a parking lot off a busy thoroughfare.
"A citizen sees the beating in a parking lot, police get there fast, they see him beating her. It's a good solid case," added Lt. Chris Carroll of Las Vegas police.
Although the woman was not stabbed she was undergoing treatment at a hospital for injuries that, according to Carroll, were not life-threatening.
Police did not release the name or age of the woman. It is also said that the woman has identified herself as Knight's girlfriend.
"This is a very large man." "He was on top of her, actually in the act of violently beating her when the officers arrived, with the knife in his hand." Carroll comments this after estimating his weight which is more than double the woman's.
At least one officer drew a Taser stun gun as they approached Knight. Jacinto Rivera, a police spokesman has added this information. He further said that he did not know if the officers drew their handguns.
According to the policeman Suge Knight has dropped the folding knife and was taken into custody without incident.
He was taken 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. However it was still unclear whether both of them had used drugs or alcohol before the arrest.
Lawyers David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, who are representing Knight too was available for comments. He said that they wished to gather information about the arrest and talk with Knight before commenting.
Rivera said Knight and the woman left Spearmint Rhino, a Las Vegas strip club, shortly before the arrest. They were alone in a champagne-colored Cadillac Escalade.
According to the police, Suge Knight and the woman argued in the vehicle while Knight was driving before he purportedly punched her in the head.
"The victim purposely grabbed the steering wheel and caused the vehicle to hit the curb," stated the police. He further said that the woman tried to run away, but Knight caught her.
Suge Knight has a track record of involving in legal hassles. He was with Tupac Shakur when the rap singer was gunned down in Las Vegas in the year 1996.
In the year 1992 Suge Knight was convicted of assault and placed on probation, then imprisoned for 5 years in the year 1996 for violating that probation.
He went back to jail again in the year 2003 for disobeying parole for punching a parking attendant at a Hollywood nightclub. He got released in 2004. In addition Suge Knight was injured during a shooting at a party in a Miami nightclub in August 2005. |
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