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Las Vegas jail: Of course we treated Paris Hilton differently

Chief cites distraction, need to avoid ‘disruption of process’ in decision

LAS VEGAS - When Paris Hilton was booked into a Las Vegas jail for possession of cocaine, she was rushed through the booking process in order to get her in and out as quickly as possible, a jail official acknowledges.

In fact, Hilton’s three-hour stay at the Clark County Detention Center was five to 21 hours shorter than that of someone else booked for the same offense.

“Yeah, she was treated differently so I don’t have a disruption of my process here at the county jail,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Deputy Chief Jim Dixon, who runs the detention center, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “When you bring somebody in like that, everybody comes over and tries to look at them. I’d have officers attempting to keep inmates away from her. I’d have disruptions.”

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