Not The Onion. Man arrested on felony drug charges for possession of Opium. Opium cologne by YSL.

[tulipsandroses]

I hope all Arkansas cops are not as dumb as this one.
Did this dumbass really believe that drug dealers label their drugs with the name of the drug? Opium, Crack, Heroin???
JFC, what a dumbass.

An Arkansas cop claimed he had pay dirt when he found a vial of Opium perfume inside a man’s car — saying it was the narcotic opium — and arrested the man on felony drug charges.

Kapil Raghu, an immigrant from India, ended up spending a month in custody.
“They knew when they opened that bottle that it was a bottle of cologne,” said his wife, Ashley Mays, in a telephone interview with Atlanta Black Star. “They knew it, and they still arrested him and took him to jail. No one had enough integrity to say, ‘Hey, hold on, something is not right here.’”

The felony drug charges were dismissed after a crime lab determined the suspected narcotic was a popular perfume by Yves Saint Laurent that has been on the market since 1977.

But after Raghu was jailed, it was discovered he had overstayed his visa, whereupon jailers contacted ICE, who then transported him to a federal detention center in Louisiana, where he remained for four weeks before his release.

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“How did you find out it was opium?” asked a commanding officer. “There’s a label on it,” responded Freshour.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/08/arkansas-cops-found-perfume-in-a-mans-car-and-arrested-him/