Paris Hilton Arrested

Sexy socialite, Paris Hilton was arrested in Hollywood early Thursday and charged with driving under the influence reports TMZ.

Officer Martha Garcia tells PEOPLE, "Paris Hilton was pulled over just before 12:30 a.m. because she was observed driving erratically. She was riding in a Mercedes-Benz with another passenger.

"Officers observed that Hilton exhibited the symptoms of intoxication. The field sobriety test was conducted at the scene and the officers determined she was driving under the influence. She was arrested at 12:30 a.m. and was cooperative at the time of her arrest. She was released at 3 a.m. on her own recognizance, which is normal for a misdemeanor arrest."

Garcia also said Hilton took a Breathalyzer test showing her blood-alcohol level to be 0.08 percent, the minimum to warrant an arrest in California. Hilton's car was impounded.

Paris was taken to the LAPD Hollywood division, where she was booked. The officers who stopped the car did not know it was Paris Hilton until they approached the vehicle on foot.

Hilton, 25, was picked up from the Hollywood police station by sister Nicky Hilton, her boyfriend, "Entourage" star Kevin Connolly and her publicist Elliot Mintz.

Cops took a booking photo, which an LAPD spokesperson says will not be released. An LAPD source would not confirm if Paris glammed it up for the camera, but revealed "It doesn't look like Nick Nolte."

Mintz told TMZ that Paris had attended a charity event earlier in the evening. He said she had a single drink -- a margarita -- the entire evening and shortly thereafter she was stopped. She was asked to take a breathalyzer test when she was stopped and cooperated. She took a second test at the station."

Driving under the influence is a misdemeanor. If convicted, the defendant will not be jailed and will be placed on 3 years' probation and ordered to be on an alcohol program and will have his or her license restricted for 90 days.

On Thursday morning, Hilton called in to Ryan Seacrest's radio show on L.A.'s 102.7 KIIS FM to explain the incident.

"You know what, it was nothing," she said. "I'd been shooting my music video for my new song, 'Nothing in this World.' … I got off last night at about 10 p.m. then I went and had dinner with my sister and all my girlfriends, and then we went to this charity event Dave Navarro threw for brain tumors.

"And um, I had one margarita, starving 'cause I had not ate all day, on my way to In-n-Out which is probably three blocks away, and I'm in my (Mercedes) SLR, which is a little fast, so maybe I was speeding a little bit" – she giggled – "and I got pulled over."

So, Seacrest asked, was she driving erratically, as reported? "No, I was just really hungry and I wanted to have an In-N-Out burger!"

She was only taken to the police station, she said, because "There was a lot of paparazzi around, so I think they wanted to make a statement. They even said, 'There's people watching, we don't want them to think we're giving you special treatment.' I totally understood. I was in there 15 minutes and out."

The police "were so nice," she said, adding that she was surprised by press coverage of her arrest. "Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings."