Record exec Knight jailed for violating parole

Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Marion "Suge" Knight, the rap record executive who drove the car in which Tupac Shakur was shot to death in Las Vegas, surrendered to authorities for allegedly violating probation.

Knight, accused of failing to submit to drug tests, was jailed without bail Tuesday, four days after an arrest warrant was issued. A bail hearing was scheduled for Monday. A hearing on his probation was set for Nov. 15.

Knight, a former UNLV football player whose Death Row Records generates $100 million a year in sales, was sentenced to probation last year after pleading no contest to assaulting two aspiring rappers at a Hollywood recording studio.

Submitting to drug tests was one of the conditions of his probation.

Knight also faces a Nov. 25 probation hearing for a federal conviction for firearms trafficking.

Knight was slightly injured in the Sept. 7 shooting on East Flamingo Road in Las Vegas that mortally wounded Shakur.

Knight was driving with the rapper when another vehicle pulled up alongside the car and sprayed it with bullets. Shakur died six days later. No suspects have been arrested and the investigation continues.

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