A traffic stop in Benton, Arkansas took a shocking turn when police arrested a man after mistaking his YSL ‘Opium’ cologne for actual narcotics.
It happened on May 3, 2025, when officers with the Benton Police Department pulled over Kapil Raghu for having a reflective license plate cover. What started as a minor traffic issue escalated quickly after officers searched his car and found a small glass vial labeled “Opium (W)” filled with a dark liquid.
Believing the liquid could be a controlled substance based solely on the label and appearance, officers arrested Raghu on the spot for possession of a Schedule II drug. He was taken to the Saline County Detention Facility while the substance was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab.
But here’s where things get wild: the “suspicious” substance turned out to be nothing more than YSL’s popular women’s fragrance, ‘Opium.’ A luxury scent sold at department stores across the globe, not an illegal narcotic.
Even after this mix-up, Raghu didn’t walk free. ICE placed a detainer on him for unrelated immigration issues, and he was transferred into their custody despite the drug charge being dropped.
Police Chief Scott Hodges later confirmed that once the lab rushed results and determined it was cologne, the case was closed on the narcotics side. Still, the situation raised serious concerns about how quickly officers jumped to conclusions based on packaging alone.
A viral video of the incident shows officers opening Raghu’s mail and inspecting the bottle before making the arrest. It’s now fueling online debate over racial profiling, immigration enforcement, and how something as common as a fragrance can spiral into legal trouble.
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YSL’s ‘Opium’ is far from a street drug. For Kapil Raghu, however, wearing the wrong scent at the wrong time cost him his freedom.
Source: my saline.com
this man KAPIL RAGHU is married for his citizenship! as he had tried to marry other women in PA & NJ! I can Prove & Provide proof of this! Being a Victim of his myself! & This is God’s Way to make sure he is caught! tho this could have been a Mistake on the Police department in Benton Arkansas for mistaking a bottle Saying “Opium” a mock of the Real perfume but I believe it is God’s way for punishing him for trying to marry other women prior to this marriage and only months before! and just disappeared and I had thought he had gone back to India but something told me to Google him one day and I find him arrested in Arkansas over perfume and that he is already married to another woman only months after I almost married him! and I was foolish to believe that younger man would love me due to me being sick and fighting cancer and he promised that he would always keep in touch and he just took off when I was dealing with the health issues the day we were due to be married and I believe that with God’s way of saving me for making a mistake marrying somebody who did not actually love me like he said he did and he was using me first citizenship just as he is using this poor girl! I saw the signs I guess but didn’t want to believe it especially when he wanted everything but to my address quickly adding me on to bank accounts etc would be on the phone for hours while he was delivering when he was in Harrisburg PA ! and had to move back to my New Jersey area for a very short time and then said he was not making the right money doing the deliveries in this area! I should have known that was another way for him to be somewhere else and keep looking for another woman closer to his age etc I feel like a fool but I also feel like this needs to be known about him and that that go fund me page is just a scam way of him to get other people’s money instead of his parents sending money like they did through the mutual Bank account that he closed out days after we didn’t get married in November of 2024! he wanted pictures for show etc is saying he would write it in his own blood how much he loves me and how he will always be there for me and that he is also the first man from his region in India to be married a citizen also now comes back to mind and I should have known with just that it was a way for him to gain citizenship and that he actually did not love me especially with the age difference & the woman in the bank when he added me on to his account actually questioned it also! that should have also told me