Deputies arrested two men at Tha Row Records' Beverly Hills headquarters Thursday morning and seized several boxes of papers and computers in a massive raid that included 15 other locations, including label head Marion "Suge" Knight's Los Angeles and Las Vegas homes.

Three men, including one of the men detained at Tha Row's offices, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department began the raid at 5 a.m. and said the arrests pertained to several ongoing investigations, including murder. Officials could not say whether the arrests were tied to the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace.

"What I can say is there are some active investigations in Los Angeles County as to a number of crimes that occurred, and those investigations lead us here," Deputy Darren Harris, a spokesperson for the sheriff's department, explained. "I can't tell you that they are related to those crimes at this point because it's an ongoing active investigation."

Although deputies raided several of Knight's current and previous residences, Harris said he is not a suspect.

Five men were arrested in the raids, which took place in Paramount, Compton, Linwood, Long Beach, Malibu, North Hollywood and Lakewood.

The men charged with conspiracy to commit murder are 25-year-old Michael Leroy Payne, 37-year-old Kordell Dupree Knox and 29-year-old Theodore Peter Kelly. Harris said they have been booked without bail.

Kelly and 32-year-old Daryl Small, who was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession, were arrested at Tha Row's offices. Another man, 35-year-old Deshone Lacey, was charged with cultivation of marijuana. Bail for the marijuana charges was set at $10,000.

Harris could not say where the other men were arrested.

The sheriff's department was aided in the raids by special weapons teams, homicide investigators and police in each of the cities, including Las Vegas. About 60 officers took part in the raid of Tha Row, which temporarily shut down Wilshire Boulevard and attracted a media blitz.

Deputies loaded computers and dozens of boxes from the offices into pickup trucks. Harris would not say what items were seized but said they're on a warrant issued by Judge John J. Cheroske of Compton Superior Court. No weapons were seized, he added. Seventeen warrants were issued, but one was not served for reasons Harris could not confirm.

Knight's lawyer, Arthur Barens, called the raids "totally inappropriate."

"We are disappointed that law enforcement has proceeded in such a heavy-handed nature, for instance by breaking in the doors of our office building, which was totally unnecessary," Barens said. "They simply could have waited until the office opened at 8 o'clock instead of breaking in at 6 o'clock and causing thousands of dollars of property damage to the building. They went to Suge's house, his wife is full-term pregnant and delivering a child in 10 days. They handcuffed his wife, made her wait outdoors at 6:30 in the morning in the cold. They found nothing, either in the office building or at the house."