Paris Hilton arrested on cocaine charge

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

Public Information officer Marcus Martin said Hilton was booked into the Clark County Detention Center early on 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 doesn’t know how much of the drug was found.

Las Vegas police Lt. Wayne Holman says that Hilton was still being held around 2am on Saturday.