Hilton arrested for alleged cocaine possession

[Lasher]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Paris Hilton was released from a Las Vegas, Nevada, jail Saturday morning after being arrested late the night before on suspicion of cocaine possession, police said Saturday.

The hotel heiress was riding in a black Cadillac Escalade which was pulled over in front of the Wynn Hotel on the Vegas strip at about 11:30 p.m. after police detected the smell of marijuana coming from the SUV, Lt. Wayne Holman told CNN.

The driver, who police did not identify, was arrested for driving under the influence, he said.

Hilton was taken to the Clark County jail. She was released after authorities determined she was not a flight risk, Holman said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/28/paris.hilton.arrest/?hpt=T2

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I feel sorry for her but maybe I shouldn't. Let's see if the criminal justice system treats her the same as a black teenager caught with a little coke.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. A black teenager would not have been released so soon

So the criminal justice system is already treating Paris differently.

[sandrakae]

13. Neither would a white one so don't start that shit already.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Your beef is with the OP, not me.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. A black teen would have been shot by the cops who would plant the gun on him.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Say "hello" to Paris, when you see her in Vegas

picking up trash along the highway. She'll be wearing a reflective safety vest.

:hi:

[pattmarty]

29. Yeah, right. With no panties, I'll bet.

:sarcasm:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. As long as she's smiling, the world's a happier place

Actually, I don't see any harm in her possessing cocaine. Damn stuff should just be legalized, along with marijuana. It'd make a lot of so-called crimes disappear.

:hi:

[atreides1]

3. I don't feel sorry for her.

This two tiered justice system has to go! Personally I would have no problem with her being made an example of, but the reality is she'll get that pass that free pass again.

While the black teenager would be sitting in jail even now.

[bloomington-lib]

19. Not if it was a rich black teenager

It's rich and famous vs not rich, not white vs black. I once spent six days in jail for drinking at a party when I was 19. The judge said he wanted to make an example of me and told me he's sure he has not seen the last of me...for underage drinking at a PARTY! Do you think because someone's white the police just pats them on the back and drives them home?

[Lasher]

21. That's a good point.

While race does play a role, I believe it's more about who has the money to bail themselves out, who can afford an expensive lawyer, and how well connected their family is.

[No Elephants]

4. Who gives a crap?

[hedgehog]

5. That was my initial reaction, but there is potential here for making this

a centerpiece of the two-tier justice system. I'd love to see an ad campaign comparing Paris to a young black man from any East Coast city.

[hedgehog]

You know, on second thought, can't we make Paris the poster child for the Bush tax cuts?

Not to mention the "death tax"?

[Lasher]

8. She already is, at least among some of us left wingers.

Have you never known the estate tax cuts to be called the 'Pairis Hilton tax cuts?

[vduhr]

37. Seriously....

I could care less what Paris is doing.

[Seedersandleechers]

6. It's all for publicity

She could easily afford for someone sober to drive her around and she could do all the drugs she wants in the safety of her home/hotel. But I guess Linsey was getting too much attention. Next up Britney Spears. Yaawwwwnnnnnnnnnn.

[thelordofhell]

25. She wasn't driving

[pattmarty]

31. No, I disagree. It's because she CAN. You or I would get the.............

........"book" thrown at us, a wealthy white (sexy) woman, not so much. As another poster said up thread, it's about M O N E Y.

[liberal N proud]

7. Paris who?

She puts shame on her granddad's name

[LibDemAlways]

9. Paris Hilton has to be one of the most useless people to

walk the face of the planet. Her opportunities for education and a career are unlimited. She could assist many charities with her deep pockets. Instead she wastes her time on "reality" tv shows, jet setting around, and apparently doing drugs. The "justice" system is doing her no favors with the preferential treatment - though I expect nothing less.

[sandrakae]

15. Opportunities for eduction? She is high school dropout.

Paris did not finish High School. Yes it is true she has the money for college, however she's stupid. She cannot get in college.

[LibDemAlways]

16. With her money she could hire tutors. If she wanted to contribute to

the family business, the opportunities are unlimited. Instead she's a waste of DNA.

[alp227]

42. Actually she was EXPELLED from her private HS then got a GED

Guess what? That nutty website WorldNetDaily dug up that story! (Found info from Wikipedia)

[NYC Liberal]

38. I don't care what she spends her money on, but...

I just wish every insignificant thing that happens in her life wouldn't be some breaking news story on supposedly "hard news" channels/sites.

Who gives a crap?

[Iggo]

10. Hurray, Drug War!

:eyes:

[sofa king]

11. Oh, she's going to walk from that.

"Suspicion" of cocaine possession? Correct me if I'm wrong but that likely means that only traces of cocaine were found. Combine that with a tenuously connected probable cause (the driver supposedly smoking dope), and half a dozen top-shelf criminal defense lawyers on retainer who are no doubt already gumming up the local legal system with paperwork, discovery requests, changes of venue, requests for continuances and dismissals, background checks on all officers involved, and so on, and she'll be cleared by the end of next week.

[pattmarty]

32. Question, would I be able to do that with a PD?

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[sofa king]

45. Probably not.

I know that "lawyer on retainer" is pretty low on the list of things I desperately need, and can afford.

[wookie72]

12. The drug war is like the military

You know how Rangel wanted to reinstate the draft as an illustration of how it's now a de facto poverty draft? Same with the drug war. The only way it'll ever get stopped is if rich white people are treated the same way brown people are treated.

However, I think coke is a helluva drug, as they say. If legalized, it should still be controlled heavily, along with heroin. (Meth should never be legalized. Does that sound reactionary? I hope not)

[pattmarty]

33. You pick heroin over meth? cocaine, maybe. Heroin and meth, NO.......

.......unless there would be some "mythical" way of making either NOT addictive & dangerous. I personally don't give a fuck if someone were to overdose on their own, I don't want innocents involved in fights, guns, or any other abuses.

[wookie72]

39. Coke and Heroin arguably have some medical benefit

In any case, meth should not be legal... even the manufacturing of it is dangerous.

[pattmarty]

41. The "medical benefit" is not an argument when advocating..............

.....recreational drug use, which I think is one of the points of this post. Marijuana is my "drug of choice" besides "beer" and I don't like or advocate the "medical benefit" back door of defense. There are a zillion other reasons (and the medical benefit is one) why it SHOULD NOT be illegal. I'll agree also about cocaine (although, I have some reservations), but Heroin or Meth should, IMO, remain illegal for RECREATIONAL USE.

[SoapBox]

14. What an idiot!

[Blaq Dem]

17. Next we are going to be mourning her death

People like Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan end up dead as long as they continue to get free passes. Ask Anna Nicole Smith about it.

[ustilago]

20. "Hearing about", maybe...

Mourning? Not so much.

[Divine Discontent]

22. true true...

[liquid diamond]

23. "Justice is for the masses."

She will get off like most celebs do.

[Aristophrenia]

24. Not fcking worth the bytes to post.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. (Yawn!) Rich dumb young nymphomaniac. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwslcxW4ck


:evilgrin:

[pattmarty]

28. We are all UN-equal under the law. I doubt she will serve ANY time.........

..........and you're right in the equivalence thing, Paris Hilton=1,000 fine and poor black kid=10 yrs in jail AND 5,000 fine.

[jerseyjack]

34. What is stupider---

Paris Hilton or the War on Drugs?

[customerserviceguy]

35. When you combine them, you have stupid squared!

Now, if only Glenn Beck can comment on this, we'd have stupid cubed.

[abq e streeter]

36. Posted this in the lounge thread about this;but better to post this here about our idiotic drug laws

4. Prohibition and the "war on drugs" is insane, and I no more revel in the arrest of Paris Hilton

than in the arrest of anyone for putting whatever substance they choose into their own bodies. I am not , by the way, suggesting that the OP ( on edit--this and the lounge OP) is "reveling" in her arrest, but I'm sure that somewhere, many people are. Whatever anyone thinks of Paris Hilton, or of other obscenely wealthy celebrities who stupidly (in my opinion anyway, and that's from experience many , many years ago)) and self-destructively (again just my opinion and experience) use cocaine, she in this case is a victim of this nonsensical and hypocritical set of laws as much as any poor person who gets busted. She, like them, may be a fool, but is not , or at least should not be made to be, a criminal because of it.

[Odin2005]

40. She sould be treated just like a poor inner-city black person would, the slimeball.

[Arrowhead2k1]

43. She got busted in Nevada this time. She's doomed.

Atleast she'll finally get a chance to meet O.J.

[alp227]

44. She already got off the hook for her DUI back in 2007

having served only about 2 weeks of a 45-day sentence for violating her driver license suspension.

Who knows if the prosecutors will eventually drop charges against Hilton this time?

[alp227]

46. Need i also mention that a chemical leak happened at a pool and sent 12 to the hospital?

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So what gets more attention, a chemical leak at the MGM Grand that sent 12 to the hospital, or a dimwitted celebrity's possession of cocaine and her boyfriend's alleged DUI?

My guess: (putting my tinfoil hat on) is that the MGM Grand management didn't want to ruin the hotel's reputation and decided to plant the coke on Hilton's person.

[Yeahyeah]

47. Who says she did anything?The cops?She's hot.Cops?Not.

Hope she's not messing with coke.That's not hot.


Paris Hilton political ad
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=acc_1218059181

[glinda]

48. Some drug dealer hit the jackpot with her money. She is stupid.