Paris Hilton Turned Down Chauffeured Ride Hours Before Arrest

Paris Hilton turned down the opportunity to be chauffeured around town in a limo just hours before her arrest last night.

Alicia Jacobs, an entertainment reporter for KSNV, who spent the afternoon interviewing Hilton at Color Salon at Caeser's Palace yesterday, says that Paris was offered a limo for the night, but the heiress turned it down.

Apparently Paris was picked up by the car at Waits' house and driven to the hotel for an interview. The car offered to stay with her when it dropped her back off at Waits' home, but Paris declined.

"When the limo took her back to Waits', she was asked if she wanted the limo to wait for her," Jacobs told E! "But Hilton said, 'No, my boyfriend will be driving us tonight.'"

Unfortunately for Waits, that might have been the difference between a DUI and nothing. Of course, cops didn't pull him over for driving recklessly, it was for the smell of marijuana smoke wafting from the car, so it's possible that Paris' result would have been the same.

The heiress was released early this morning after being booked for possession of cocaine, which a source tells X17online, was not Paris'. Her attorney issued a statement warning the public not to "rush to judgement" on the matter.