Paris Hilton Has Been Charged With Felony Cocaine Possession
Paris Hilton was charged Monday with felony cocaine possession. Hilton and her boyfriend Cy Waits were pulled over on Friday night in a black Cadillac Escalade on the Las Vegas strip. According to Police they pulled over the vehicle in front of the Wynn hotel driven by Cy Waits because they noticed the smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle. Waits was arrested for suspicion of DUI, meanwhile a crowd of around 100 people were onlookers as Paris was questioned. She said that she needed to use the bathroom and was then taken into the Wynn security office restroom. When she went to grab lip balm from her purse that is when the officer noticed the bindle that was determined to contain 0.8 gram of cocaine fall out. Paris first said that the purse was not hers but has later changed the story to the purse being hers but she had lent it to a friend. She claims the cocaine must have belonged to the friend, other items in the purse were credit cards, 1,300 cash a broken albuterol tablet that Hilton said were her possessions. There were also zig zag rolling papers and some cosmetics in the purse that she said did not belong to her. The picture above is Hilton’s new mugshot, she was held in jail for about 3 hours and released on her own recognizance. Hilton is facing a category E felony which in Nevada carries with it a sentence of one to four years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000; the court can also grant probation on a first offense.
