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BARSTOW, Calif. - Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight was fined $691 Friday after pleading no contest to making an illegal U turn and driving without insurance, authorities said. A marijuana possession charge was dismissed.
Knight, 40, was jailed for more than a week after his arrest Feb. 5, and the San Bernardino County sheriff's department said at the time that marijuana was found in the Ford pickup truck he was driving.
Prosecutors agreed to drop a drug possession charge after finding insufficient evidence to support it, said James Hill, supervisor of the district attorney's office in Barstow. A parole agent investigated independently and reached the same conclusion, said Marty O'Neal, chief deputy regional parole administrator.
Knight was, however, in technical violation of his parole for traveling more than 50 miles from his home, O'Neal said. The record mogul, whose label once dominated the rap world, was ordered to undergo electronic monitoring until he was discharged from parole April 24, O'Neal said.
Plea documents for the traffic violations were filed Friday in Municipal Court in Barstow, Hill said.
Knight's attorney Dermot Givens said the California Institution for Men in Chino took cash and a 16-carat diamond earring from Knight when he entered the prison, but never returned either. There was no immediate response to a telephone message left at the prison.
A teenage woman who was in the truck with Knight at the time was also arrested. Alexis Wilkinson of Las Vegas, was charged with providing false information to police and was released, Hill said. That case is pending.
Knight, whose stable of artists in the 1990s included West Coast stars like Snoop Dogg and 2Pac, was released from prison in 2001 after serving time for assault and weapons violations. He continues to operate his label, now called Tha Row, but has had no commercially successful releases in years.
Barstow is about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
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BARSTOW, Calif. - Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight was fined $691 Friday after pleading no contest to making an illegal U turn and driving without insurance, authorities said. A marijuana possession charge was dismissed.
Knight, 40, was jailed for more than a week after his arrest Feb. 5, and the San Bernardino County sheriff's department said at the time that marijuana was found in the Ford pickup truck he was driving.
Prosecutors agreed to drop a drug possession charge after finding insufficient evidence to support it, said James Hill, supervisor of the district attorney's office in Barstow. A parole agent investigated independently and reached the same conclusion, said Marty O'Neal, chief deputy regional parole administrator.
Knight was, however, in technical violation of his parole for traveling more than 50 miles from his home, O'Neal said. The record mogul, whose label once dominated the rap world, was ordered to undergo electronic monitoring until he was discharged from parole April 24, O'Neal said.
Plea documents for the traffic violations were filed Friday in Municipal Court in Barstow, Hill said.
Knight's attorney Dermot Givens said the California Institution for Men in Chino took cash and a 16-carat diamond earring from Knight when he entered the prison, but never returned either. There was no immediate response to a telephone message left at the prison.
A teenage woman who was in the truck with Knight at the time was also arrested. Alexis Wilkinson of Las Vegas, was charged with providing false information to police and was released, Hill said. That case is pending.
Knight, whose stable of artists in the 1990s included West Coast stars like Snoop Dogg and 2Pac, was released from prison in 2001 after serving time for assault and weapons violations. He continues to operate his label, now called Tha Row, but has had no commercially successful releases in years.
Barstow is about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
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