by Chinwe Okafor
Pretty ironic for his father, Jackie Chan who was named an anti-drug ambassador in 2009. Jaycee Chan has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty in a Beijing court to providing a venue for drug users.
According to reports, Police seized more than 100 grams of marijuana during an August raid at the lad’s Beijing home. Both Chan and Taiwanese movie star Ko Kai tested positive for the drug.
His imprisonment comes amid a major crackdown on illegal drugs in China.
“I violated the law. I deserve to be punished. When I return to society, I won’t do it again,’ Chan said in courtroom footage aired on state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).
Last summer, police arrested more than 7,800 people in Beijing over illegal drug use.
Official News Agency Xinhua said the maximum sentence for the charge against Chan was three years in prison.
His actor father, sits on China’s top national political advisory panel — the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and it came as an embarrassment to him.
The actor has told Xinhua that he did not use his connections to interfere with the case and that he hopes his singer-actor son will eventually become an anti-drug ambassador.
CCTV had aired video of the police raid on Jaycee Chan’s apartment, in which Chan was shown identifying marijuana in his possession. Ko testified on camera that he had used drugs at Chan’s home.
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