A knockoff bottle of Yves Saint Laurent’s “Opium” perfume landed an Indian immigrant in handcuffs and into an Arkansas jail cell where he allegedly spent the next three days without food or rest, standing beside a pile of stinking human faeces.
Kapil Raghu, 28, was pulled over by Benton police officers one day in May this year, and what started as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated into a nightmare for him. The officers found “Opium” in his car’s centre console and despite Raghu pleading that it was perfume he had purchased at a gas station, he was charged with possession of a narcotic substance.
