Innocent until proven guilty? As reported over the weekend, Paris Hilton, was taken into custody in Las Vegas on Friday after a car she was travelling in was pulled over by police and a suspicious-looking white powder was found in her purse - although she is claiming all is not what it seems...
After being arrested, the heiress now faces a hefty fine and four years in jail, but she says that the purse in which the drug was found was not one she owned (too 'cheap'!) - and that she thought the powder was actually gum. In the official document, obtained by the Associated Press, Las Vegas police Lieutenant Dennis Flynn wrote: "She told me the purse was not hers, that she had borrowed it from a friend.
"Hilton admitted the (asthma medication) Albuterol (also in the purse)... was hers and is prescribed to her, but the suspected cocaine was not. I asked Hilton whose cocaine it was, and she said she had not seen it but now thought it was gum."
Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Cy Waits, has reportedly been sacked from his job as head of nightclub operations for the Wynn and Encore properties after his arrest.
Paris will reportedly be officially charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office today.
After being arrested, the heiress now faces a hefty fine and four years in jail, but she says that the purse in which the drug was found was not one she owned (too 'cheap'!) - and that she thought the powder was actually gum. In the official document, obtained by the Associated Press, Las Vegas police Lieutenant Dennis Flynn wrote: "She told me the purse was not hers, that she had borrowed it from a friend.
"Hilton admitted the (asthma medication) Albuterol (also in the purse)... was hers and is prescribed to her, but the suspected cocaine was not. I asked Hilton whose cocaine it was, and she said she had not seen it but now thought it was gum."
Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Cy Waits, has reportedly been sacked from his job as head of nightclub operations for the Wynn and Encore properties after his arrest.
Paris will reportedly be officially charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office today.
