Another Day, Another Arrest for Suge Knight—This Time for Weed

Hip-hop powerhouse is rung up on a drug charge in Vegas

By Josh Grossberg Feb 09, 2012 4:05 PMTags
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Stop us if you've heard this one before: Suge Knight's in trouble again.

The erstwhile Death Row Records impresario was popped in Las Vegas on Wednesday for drug possession during a routine traffic stop.

And the hits keep coming.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police tell E! News that Knight (full name Marion Knight Jr.) was pulled over at approximately 5:30 p.m. yesterday when he made an unsafe lane change. Officers ran his name through the system and discovered that he had several bench warrants out for his arrest.

A search of his Bentley subsequently turned up a small amount of cannabis and he was taken into custody, cited at a nearby station for possession of a controlled substance (marijuana), then released.

The problems for Suge run deeper than a nominal pot bust. The rap mogul could end up getting jail time since, according to TMZ, he's been on three years' unsupervised probation since December 2010 for driving on a suspended license.

This after Knight has already endured multiple prison stints for probation violations, assault, drug possession and other crimes dating back to 1987. The former hip-hop titan lost formal control of Death Row in 2006 and ended up filing for bankruptcy soon after.

—Reporting by Sharareh Drury

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