Paris Picks Up the Baton

Is this like, part of the Party Girl Code or something?

Paris Hilton was arrested last night in Las Vegas on charges of cocaine possession.

Girl, you’re Paris freakin’ Hilton – get someone to hold your s--- for you!

Hilton got busted after police pulled over a car she was ridin’ (dirty) in; the police stopped the vehicle after they believed pot smoke was coming out of it. A search yielded the coke. And the rest is TMZd history.

It’s been kind of a druggy summer for Pare-poo.

In July, she was held by police on Corsica and caught with less than a gram of marijuana on her but released without being charged. Earlier in the month, she was questioned by South African police at the World Cup after she was caught smoking pot. Allegedly.

Old habits die hard, I guess. It was only three years ago that Hilton spent some time in the slammer for violating her probation in an alcohol-related driving case.

I gotta give it to her, though. She was the original bad-seed new-century starlet. She started to go bad, then Nicole Richie started to go bad. But then Richie got her reform on, so Britney Spears went cookoo, right. All the while Lindsay Lohan was struggling with her demons and sent to jail and rehab like it was going out of style.

And now that L2 has been sprung from her latest round of incarceration and treatment, Hilton just had to bring things full circle.

Like, if one party girl leaves the kitchen another has to get caught with her hand in the coke-y jar.

Photo: People.com.