So Paris Hilton got arrested after a traffic stop in Las Vegas. But there's a whole lot more to this story...

The 29-year-old socialite/heiress/actress(?)/singer(?) was a passenger in a black Cadillac Escalade from which a traffic officer noticed “an obvious odor of a controlled substance,” according to a public information officer. The traffic officer stopped the vehicle, and the driver (Hilton’s boyfriend Cy Waits) allegedly admitted that he was the smoker of the substance. Ok, so far we follow....

While searching the SUV, police discovered that Hilton had an unspecified amount of what was later identified as cocaine – uh oh, Paris. Hilton was arrested and released from the Clark County Detention Center on her own recognizance, while Waits, who manages a trio of Vegas nightclubs, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. And here's where it gets stupid...

Paris is playing “Hey! That's not my coke!” – apparently taking a page from the Lohan playbook, if you recall. "She told me the purse was not hers, that she had borrowed it from a friend," Las Vegas police Lt. Dennis Flynn wrote in his report of Hilton's arrest shortly before midnight Friday. The friend was not identified. I dunno about you, faithful readers, but wouldn't you know if your friend MIGHT have cocaine in their purse? And if so – don't borrow it!

Officer Flynn said Hilton denied owning a small plastic "bindle" containing 0.8 grams of cocaine powder that the police lieutenant said fell out when Hilton opened the purse to get a tube of lip balm.

"Hilton admitted the Albuterol was hers and is prescribed to her, but the suspected cocaine was not," Flynn wrote. "I asked Hilton whose cocaine it was, and she said she had not seen it but now thought it was gum." Wow, Paris....wow.

So what do you think? Is Paris innocent, just a victim of using a purse from a friend she should reconsider keeping? Or is she just out and out lying? She faces a low-grade felony possession of cocaine charge that could get her probation if convicted. A violation of that probation could be punishable by up to one to four years in Nevada state prison.