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PARIS Hilton has been arrested after police smelled marijuana smoke wafting from a car driven by her boyfriend, then found cocaine in her purse.
A crowd quickly gathered when Hilton and nightclub mogul Cy Waits were stopped shortly before midnight in Las Vegas in the vehicle near the Wynn Las Vegas resort, police said.
The 29-year-old celebrity socialite was taken into the hotel “to keep her safe” during the initial investigation, police Lieutenant Wayne Holman said.
Police Officer Marcus Martin said the motorcycle officer pulled the black Cadillac Escalade over on Las Vegas Boulevard after noticing smoke that smelled like marijuana. Police later found a substance in Hilton’s purse that tests showed to be cocaine, the officer said. He didn’t say how much of the drug was found.
Hilton was arrested on suspicion of felony cocaine possession.
Waits, 34, was arrested on misdemeanour suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Both were booked into the Clark County jail, where Martin said Hilton was released without bail.
Less than an hour later, Hilton’s Twitter account was updated with a posting that said the actress was in bed watching the television show Family Guy, and then that she was going to sleep. It was unclear if the tweets came from her, were posted by time-release or were sent by someone else.
If convicted of the low-grade felony, Hilton would get probation. Any violation of probation would be punishable by one to four years in Nevada state prison.
Hilton’s attorney, David Chesnoff, said he was still gathering facts about the arrest.
“I caution people not to rush to judgment,” he said.
Waits’ lawyer, Richard Schonfeld, said Waits posted $2260 bail and was expected to be released.
Mr Schonfeld said he was “troubled by the circumstances” leading to the arrest, but declined to specify his concerns.
“As the case proceeds, a lot of facts are going to come to light that will ultimately lead to exoneration,” Mr Schonfeld said.
Hilton was arrested after the Brazil-Netherlands World Cup match in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on suspicion of possession of marijuana. The case was then dropped at a midnight court hearing.
Hilton pleaded no contest in 2007 to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. After spending about 23 days in jail, Hilton told CNN host Larry King that the experience caused her to re-evaluate the role partying played in her life. She said she wanted “to help raise money for kids and for breast cancer and multiple sclerosis”.
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