Paris Hilton is a gal who gets in and out of trouble. Like Lindsay Lohan she usually gets away with it. Usually it's because she always lands on her feet. Sometimes one of her 9 lives comes in handy. Then there are those other occasions when her deal with darkness must be responsible. Like lately.Paris has a fondness for the kind of party favours that you can't get at your local 5 & dime variety store - not unless there's a twitchy homeless guy standing right outside the door. These are the kind of party favours that can get you in a bit of trouble with the law. Trouble is what Paris got when she got nabbed with a significant amount of cocaine in a purse she later claimed wasn't hers - even though it had all her ID in it. Naturally Paris had to go off for another one of those smashing mugshots of hers. She was then set free to continue with her own special brand of celebrity mayhem!
As usual when Ms. Hilton is involved things can take strange and unexpected turns. Like in this case. Paris was tried for her hard partying ways by a Las Vegas prosecutor named David Charles Schubert, 47. In fact he's more than a prosecutor - he's a chief deputy DA. He's no stranger to publicity either since he also threw the book at Bruno Mars over his cocaine related misdoings. So he's had some previous experience with drug busts and the kind of bad PR they can bring. No previous experience could've prepared him for what was about to happen - though he really should've known.
Seems that Dave was out and about, on the street as it were, when he ran into an old acquaintance. Never one to breeze past one of the little people Dave stopped to pass the time of day. One thing lead to another and pretty soon the chief deputy DA was making a drug deal. By drug deal I mean that the dude was buying crack.
Now there's no shame in that. Chief Deputy DA is a rough job high on demands and with tons of pressure. You're only as good as your last win because those hungry jaws poised just above you on the food chain are expecting results and not excuses. So sometimes having something that gives you a little added edge - like Popeye with his spinach - makes everyone happy. Everyone except for the poor buggers who get sent to the klink!
It's a victimless crime and if no body sees it then no body gets mad. However in this case the aforementioned David Charles Schubert made a whopper of a mistake - he did let some one see him do it. The person who saw this dirty little deed go down was probably the worst person in the world to be standing near by when you're buying dope off of a street dealer - and that's and undercover cop! According to the Las Vegas Review Journal -
Schubert was arrested by a Las Vegas police patrol officer about 4:51 p.m. near Desert Inn Road and Maryland Parkway.
The patrol officer saw what he thought was a drug transaction and stopped Schubert's vehicle near Sierra Vista Drive and Cambridge Street, police said.
The result was that Schubert was whisked off to the very same facility that Hilton and Mars were taken to, and for much the same treatment: finger printing, mugshot, and I assume strip search followed by anal cavity exam. Officers of the court need to be held to higher standards so we don't want anyone thinking he got off easy by slipping something up his sleeve, or up anything else!
"It's disheartening to know the individual who I assigned to prosecute high-level drug cases is allegedly using rock cocaine. His future is bleak with the district attorney's office."
I haven't heard such strong language since the last time I brought home a report card! The fact that Schubert was named to a high level Las Vegas anti drug task force probably heightens the disappointment. No one wants to think about a fox guarding the hen house scenario!
Not everyone is appalled and disgusted with this so called law enforcement officials sleazy shenanigans. Schubert's erstwhile adversary - the Red Baron to his Snoopy - has spoken out in support of the disgraced, and by now tweaking like crazy, prosecutor. David Chesnoff is a hi profile Vegas attorney who's crossed words with Schubert in both the Hilton and Mars cases. Chesnoff had this to say about his fallen adversary!
"I'm a big believer in the Constitution. I believe everyone is innocent until proven guilty. And I always root for the underdog. I will say this: David's always been a real professional and always treated me with respect, so I wish him the best."
Well there you go - trouble comes when you least suspect it and you find friends where you never thought to look. That ought'a do as a moral to this sad and sorry cautionary tale. That is unless you wanna make something out of it like - LEGALIZE DRUGS ALREADY! Then again others like a more traditional moral like "Men who live in glass house better not throw rocks - even if they're rocks of cocaine". As for myself, I'll go for something more common sense and nonjudgmental, like "Make sure that your own nose is clean before you go sticking it into other people's business!. Unless you're an entertainment blogger that is - then go for it!
