Paris Hilton arrested on cocaine charge

[jefferson_dem]

Paris Hilton arrested on cocaine charge

Celebrity was found with drug when friend's car was stopped, police say

Paris Hilton was arrested for possession of cocaine after officers stopped the car she was in on a Las Vegas street late Friday night.

Public Information officer Marcus Martin said Hilton was booked into the Clark County Detention Center early Saturday morning on a charge of possession of cocaine.

He said she was in a car driven by a friend that was stopped when officers noticed what they suspected to be marijuana smoke coming from it.

Martin said that during the stop officers found what appeared to be a controlled substance on Hilton and tests showed that it was cocaine.

He said he did not know how much of the drug was found.

Las Vegas police Lt. Wayne Holman said that Hilton was still being held around 2 a.m. Saturday. He said she would probably be released on her own recognizance later in the morning.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38892343

[MrScorpio]

1. I just hit this story up in GD

If you check it out, make sure to add a little something and class differences in the Drug War.


Even if the MSM doesn't make it relevant, it shouldn't stop us from do it.

[sarge43]

2. Not to worry Paris. You're white and rich. Nothing will come of this n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. if there is a next life, I wonder what hers will be like.

[abq e streeter]

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 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 and self-destructively 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.

[Frank Cannon]

7. Don't worry about Paris. She'll be fine.

It's the "little people" who end up having to make big rocks into little ones over stuff like this.

[quakerboy]

8. Here's the thing

She will never suffer a second for it, where a lot of other people will. She will not be a victim of anything.

I may not like the laws that exist, but I would at least like some consistency in their application.

On rapid edit: as long as this remains true, nothing will change, and the poor will still suffer. If Paris Hilton were facing real consequences, along with all the other rich kids, their parents might just take a second look at the laws in place. But as long as the laws do not apply to the rich, the rich will have no reason to change them.

[LawnKorn]

5. She should have stuffed the bag down her underwear - the cops would never find it there

Oh wait, she doesn't ware underwear

[Frank Cannon]

6. "Released on her own recognizance." What a laff.

I thought that in order to be released on your own recognizance, you had to... well, recognize that you've broken a law and that you have to suffer the consequences for it.

Don't think that word is even in Paris' vocabulary.