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.

SNIP------
“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/

[usedtobedemgurl]

1. This was my mom's favorite perfume.

At one point she visited the US and got it through the duty free shop. The customs people asked her if she had anything go declare. She declared the liquor she purchased along with the perfume. The guy called some folks over and she was interrogated before they let her go. It does happen, but this was may e in the early 80s.

[tulipsandroses]

6. Not one of my faves. Though I've never had the heart to tell my dad. He's bought me several bottles over the years

They end up being regifted. LOL.
I might need to warn people not to keep it in their cars.

[milestogo]

15. I love the scent of Opium perfume.

[KentuckyWoman]

2. "Immigrant from India"

The arrest for "Stupid Cop" perfume was a ruse. Fake arrest so ICE can get another brown person.

[malaise]

11. Ding ding

We have a winner

Tell Kash Patel that this could happen to him.

[angrychair]

83. Its will happen to him

All these fools playing sycophant to these racist assholes will, eventually, be on their list as well. How they can't see that that yet is its own commentary on their intelligence and integrity.

[C Moon]

47. And I wonder if there will be some gratitude in his Christmas stocking.

[Maggiemayhem]

77. A month in custody for possession of perfume.

30 days

[Deuxcents]

3. I hope a lawsuit will bankrupt this cop, the town, the county and immigration officials for exceptional stupidity

[catrose]

63. Would be nice, but qualified immunity makes it unlikely

[dweller]

4. ARREST YSL RFN !!

Drug manufacturing …

✌🏻

[not fooled]

5. Wanna guess how the cop voted?

No mystery there.

[ShazzieB]

53. It's Arkansas. No need to even guess.

Yes, I do know there are people in Arkansas who aren't Schlump voters. My best friend lives there, and her husband have never voted for the Orange Hellbeast ever. But I know it's a blood red state, and it's a pretty good bet that any random person off the street there is much more likely to be Republican than otherwise.

[maspaha]

7. I have no words

[twodogsbarking]

8. It is interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

https://www.facebook.com/standup/videos/important-safety-tip-from-demetri-martin-always-take-the-elevator-get-more-deep-/1872683282747418/

[dobleremolque]

28. It's pronounced

koh-LAHG-nee in Arkansas.

[twodogsbarking]

46. In appachia there is no translation.

[MineralMan]

9. Perfume Can Be Confusing, at the Best of Times

So, I'm not surprised by this. Most men have no idea about scents.

An illustration: In the 80s, I was on a plane from New York, flying home from a business trip. As I worked on a crappy drink on the plane, I noticed a scent that caught my attention. Pretty soon, I realized that its source was a flight attendant who was going up and down the aisle. I caught her attention. She smiled and asked if she could help me. I said, "I'm very curious about the scent you're wearing. I don't recognize it." She apparently thought I was flirting with her and smiled more broadly and said, "Oh, that's new. It's Giorgio "Red."

I said, "Thank you very much. I really like it. I'm going to buy some for my wife." Her broad smile disappeared, and she didn't seem to notice me the rest of the flight. However, my wife did like it as a gift, I'm pleased to say.

Misunderstandings. Perfume. I don't know, but maybe Opium is intoxicating.

[twodogsbarking]

49. Your wife and girlfriend should never wear the same perfume. Y'all could get confused.

[MineralMan]

60. I've never had both

at the same time.

[twodogsbarking]

61. Had both for what at the same time?

Sorry. I had to.

[OldBaldy1701E]

66. And, trust me, you don't want to! (n/t)

[Fil1957]

12. I wonder who the cop voted for in the last election. Anyone want to hazard a guess?

[dobleremolque]

13. I wonder if that is the same officer

who took a speed reading course and had to go to the emergency room with chapped lips. /snark

[republianmushroom]

14. Remind me of an arrest reported years ago.

A Washington deputy sheriff arrest a woman for having a bale of cannabis. Turn out it was a bale of alfalfa hay.

[nuxvomica]

16. A West Virginia driver was arrested in Phoenix years ago

For having a fake license plate because parts of states don't issue license plates. The officer had no idea there was an actual state called "West Virginia."

[republianmushroom]

19. Unbelievable.

[Warpy]

20. Try driving through Dixie in a pickup with New Mexico plates

Hilarity ensued, especially when I answered their high school Spanish with Parisian French.

[republianmushroom]

22. You had fun, didn't you.

[twodogsbarking]

52. I would guess that some, if not many, Americans think that New Mexico is in, well, Mexico. Maybe DJTurd.

[niyad]

21. JFC. Even as clueless as I am, I could tell the difference, and not

just because the cannabis smell would make me seriously ill. Does cannabis actually get packaged into hay bale size bundles?

[republianmushroom]

25. Have seen videos of bales thrown out of boat that were in bags in the Gulf of Mexico.

When being pursued by LE.

[niyad]

29. Thank you. Even witth all the pot stores around here, I have never seen

anything like that. Although, to be fair, I avoid them as much as possible.

[ret5hd]

33. yes it does. or did...back in the late 70's anyway.

another fun fact…we would get “bricks” of hash (1/2” x 6” x 10” approx) in white cotton bags. stamped on the bags in blue ink was an emblem with two columns (like architectural columns) with the words “CAMB DEVID”.

i always wondered what that was about.

[niyad]

39. Thank you. I may be a child of the '60's, but my experiences were

very different.

[Easterncedar]

62. Aahhhhh. Those were the days.

[Warpy]

17. I've been waiting for this to happen since that stuff came out

This time it was only a fake charge to hole a man with the wrong color skin while they checkd out his visa status.

Bastards.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Playing devil's advocate,...

it wasn't a branded vial. It was a generic one (like this) with a paper, hand-written label.



On the other hand, what idiotic criminal is going to label his drugs? And, all the cop had to do was unscrew the top and sniff it to verify that it was cologne.

[niyad]

23. Where does it say that in the article, which says it had a label on it,

with the name and the "w".

[LudwigPastorius]

31. Body cam footage

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

After the cop's supervisor arrives, he pulls the vial out of the evidence envelope.

[niyad]

35. Thank you. I read the article, did not watch the video.

[ShazzieB]

55. I dud not see the vial.

Must have blinked at the wrong moment.

[LisaL]

32. The bottle is shown in the video.

Still, the guy told them it was perfume right away.

[niyad]

36. Thank you.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. No, no, that really does happen

Photographic evidence:

[LisaL]

34. And they unscrewed the top in the video.

They saw it was a roll on.

[niyad]

24. BS they would have let him go if he had just answered their questions.

[rubbersole]

26. Let's not leave out white stupid southern boys with poor taste.

English Leather is incredibly rank when you pour it down a wrist plaster cast...to cover the stink of 4 weeks of dead skin and sweat. 9th grade. This toxic plume followed me around for 3 weeks. Adding Jade East was my second mistake.

[moniss]

38. The store didn't have

British Sterling?

[rubbersole]

50. If I'd had just a scad more upbringing...

[Deuxcents]

65. I used Canoe as a young teen..I loved that stuff but my mom was 🤔 😆

[rubbersole]

75. My order brother used Canoe.

He did well with the girls in high school. He was/is dumb as a box of rocks (magat) but he can always remember the glory days...60 years ago.

[Dem2theMax]

76. This is one of the funniest things I've ever read!

I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.

[GiqueCee]

27. Sounds like that sorry-ass little town...

... is a place to avoid. But then again, look who they elected governor; what do you expect?
That webfooted, pinheaded bigot with a badge is what you get when cousins marry.

[moniss]

37. That's Arkansas and as they say just

a more ignorant version of Louisiana.

[Orrex]

40. ACAB

[rsdsharp]

41. This is what happens when you deliberately test to eliminate high IQ candidates.

In most states, they will not allow you into their trade school (“The Academy”) if your IQ is over 104. With few exceptions, that’s the max; most cops have an IQ lower than that.

It sounds like Ossifer Freshour’s is room temp — with the AC on high.

[moniss]

42. I'm old fashioned so

it's Field Flowers by Avon for me that I remember most as an adult. As a kid it was Heaven Scent or English Lavender. I also remember a few mysterious women who wore Jungle Gardenia. Spiked heels, daring neckline on the dress, smoking a cigarette and waiting for someone to buy her a drink. Heartbreak sure to follow.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

57. Wow

I love that description, very noir.

[hatrack]

68. "It was raining on the night she first walked into my office . . . "

"She said her husband was cheating on her, which I found hard to believe once she took off her raincoat."

[MorbidButterflyTat]

84. Nice!

Sounds like Bogart.

[hatrack]

87. Inside every middle-aged man, there's a bad noir scriptwriter fighting to get out . . .

[MorbidButterflyTat]

90. I love that!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

43. This is evidence of a legitimate vote in 2024.

Collectively we are way too stupid for our own good.

[regnaD kciN]

44. Nothing "dumb" about it...

The pig saw a chance to bust a dark-skinned man so that ICE could nab him, and happily seized on any pretext he could find. As it turned out, he got precisely what he wanted.

[orangecrush]

74. Exactly

[jmowreader]

45. I would REALLY hate to think what would have happened...

…if the guy would have had Dior’s Poison perfume in his car. He would have probably been labeled a terrorist and sent to Gitmo.

[chouchou]

48. Our plans might work out perfectly!

Let us get together. Start selling drugs with the labels "Miss LaPove .. Guaranteed-not-to-have-any-bad-drugs".

[Dave Bowman]

51. Ah, the joys of inbreeding.

[spike jones]

54. I now keep my weed in a container marked Oregano.

[Jilly_in_VA]

56. Arkies are not bright

I mean, look what they elected as governor---wonky-eyed Sarah.

[Buddyzbuddy]

58. Is this the same police dept. that just agreed to cooperate with ICE.

Same state. I'm sure this will help bolster our confidence in their future arrests. Looking forward to the reports from Buford P. Buttface. What a maroon. (Misspelled on purpose)

[RANDYWILDMAN]

59. Please Fire asap

They had him custody for a month. They need to lose theirs jobs for this crap. Being stupid is not a crime, but you can’t be a stupid cop, that quota is full up. This is why you don’t automatically back the blue.

[WiVoter]

64. I Love Opium!

My favorite!

[B.See]

67. What I've always found... interesting... is

the tendency for some to try to rationalize stuff like this...

until it happens to them or someone they know.

[Figarosmom]

69. I saw the video a week or so ago.

There wasa younger female cop with him too. I couldn't believe neither one of them had never heard of Opium perfume. I wear it all the time. The Opium noise and the the plain Opium.

And his wife was all crazy too, asking him where he got it etc. And in the video he very clearly said it was a perfume.

?si=U_awDMaTSisXruZE

Then ICE COMPLICATES MATTERS. Can you imagine how much this has cost them monetarily and mentally?

[tulipsandroses]

72. Thanks for posting the video. Either he's a dumbass or just wanted to arrest a brown person

Don't they have roll on perfume or cologne in Arkansas? Are they really that backwards?
Even if he didn't know Opium was the name of a perfume, he's never seen one of those before? Good grief.

[Renew Deal]

81. Just watched it

I have no idea why a search was needed. The justification was poor. And I don't know why it took so long to get an answer back. Are people just supposed to sit in jail while the police try to sort out misunderstandings? They never heard of "liquid opium" but they arrested him anyway. Also, why is the police department in a hurry to call ICE? Thats not their job.

[doc03]

70. Did Barney Fife take a job in Arkansas?

[LiberalArkie]

71. He is better than most, I believe. He can read

[orangecrush]

73. Saw the video

The cop knew very well what it was, it was an excuse to fuck with a brown person.

I believe he ended up in a detention center, despite the obvious bullshit being debunked.

[Seinan Sensei]

78. Good thing he didn't have a bottle of 'Guilty'

(Kenneth Cole fragrance)

[Bread and Circuses]

79. Wait who's that Governor Llawsuit incoming Arkansas!

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, THAT Lady… the one who wants to :

“Get Rid of the Education Department.” because Arkansas is such a powerhouse of educational and intellectual achievement they want the Feds to give the $ direct to parents. Parents who are indifferent to anything ‘public’ because they do things their way and “ don’t need NO stinkin’ government help”

“ Arkansas ranked as the fourth least educated state with Louisiana, Mississippi and West Virginia ranking lower than the Natural State.”

Lawsuit incoming Arkansas!


https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/arkansas-among-least-educated-states-in-us-study/

[Eugene]

80. I was always a bit worried about getting that cologne. Kind of like getting busted asking for Coke.

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[live love laugh]

82. A month!!!!! Absolutely absurd.

[Montauk6]

86. Lemme guess...

The kids also hang out at convenience stores begging adult strangers to buy them ginger beer...?

[Historic NY]

88. It seems some police depts go for the lowest IQ to go for low pay.

[oasis]

89. Unbelievable! 3 dumbassed cops at the scene.

Not one has a clue.