Paris' Latest Lame Excuse: I Thought the Cocaine Was Gum!

Police lay out events that led to her felony arrest, including her denial that drugs belonged to her

Paris Hilton likes gum and lip balm. As for that cocaine? Well, that's proving to be a sticky situation.

Las Vegas police today released their report on what transpired that ended with Hilton briefly jailed on a felony drug possession count.

Here are the details.

Her 34-year-old beau, Cy Waits, was pulled over on shortly after midnight Friday after a motorcycle cop smelled pot wafting from the couple's Cadillac Escalade. Hilton, 29, asked the officer to accompany her into the nearby Wynn Hotel so she could use the restroom. The officer agreed, due in part to assure her saftety, since a crowd had begun to gather, and to continue the investigation.

Once inside a Wynn security holding room, Hilton asked if she could put on lip balm, and as she went to open her purse, a "small bindle of what [the officer] believed to be cocaine in a clear baggy" fell into the policeman's hand, per the report. Police said it was about 0.8 grams of the drug, enough to warrant a felony charge.

At that point, the socialite told him that the purse was not hers and that she borrowed it from a friend. As she later reiterated to her hairstylist, Hilton also told police that the cocaine wasn't hers but she acknowledged that most of the other contents—including $1,300 cash, credit cards, half of a broken tablet of Albuterol for which she had a prescription—were hers.

When asked who the  did belong to, Hilton supposedly told him "she had not seen it, but now thought it was gum."

Hmmm...Cokelicious?

Shockingly, that excuse didn't wash with the officer who read the celebutante her Miranda rights and took her into custody.

As for Waits, who just days before was hailed a hero after subduing a knife-wielding intruder last week at Hilton's home, he was fired from his job as head of nightclub operations for Wynn and Encore properties and faces a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

A spokesman for the Clark County District Attorney's Office tells E! News that Hilton's count carries a minimum term of one year and a maximum term of four years, along with a $5,000 fine. However, the spokesman adds, "the court could sentence her to a term of probation, rather than prison time."

Hilton has not commented on the arrest aside from a tweet thanking fans for their support. Her lawyer, David Chesnoff, previously cautioned people "not to rush to judgment."

Hilton's arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 27.

—Reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum

(Originally published Aug. 30, 2010, at 12:36 p.m. PT)