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Paris Hilton was arrested late Friday night along the Vegas strip after police found cocaine in her bag.
Hilton and her nightclub mogul boyfriend Cy Waits were sitting in an Escalade outside the Wynn hotel when police approached them, noticing a huge cloud of smoke coming from the vehicle, which police thought to be marijuana smoke. Lo and behold, it was.
Waits was arrested for DUI (drug-related), cops said. After searching Hilton’s bag, they found a small amount of cocaine, and arrested her under a felony drug charge.
The pair were booked at Clark County jail around 2 a.m., police said. Hilton, 29, was released early Saturday morning. Waits, 37, is being held until arraignment.
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TMZ is reporting that Hilton has wasted no time in snagging top Vegas lawyer David Chesnoff, who has represented David Copperfield and Suge Knight in the past. According to TMZ, Hilton is pulling the ‘it wasn’t my bag’ defense, claiming the purse holding the coke didn’t belong to her–just like the joint she was caught smoking at the World Cup in South Africa last month. Those charges were later dropped.
By 6 a.m., a few hours after her arrest and with her boyfriend still in jail, Hilton tweeted about laying in bed watching Family Guy.
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