Jackie Chan's Son Sentenced To 6 Months Imprisonment!

The son of actor Jackie Chan
pleaded guilty in a Beijing court
Friday to providing a venue for
drug users and was sentenced to
six months in prison, following a
major crackdown on illegal drugs
in the Chinese capital.
Jaycee Chan, 32, also was ordered
to pay 2,000 yuan, or about $320,
the Dongcheng District People's
Court said on its microblog account.
Police detained Chan, Taiwanese
movie star Ko Kai and several
others in August in Chan's Beijing
apartment. Chan and Ko tested
positive for marijuana, and police
seized more than 100 grams (3.5
ounces) of marijuana from Chan's
home, the official Xinhua News
Agency said.
"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.
The maximum sentence for the
charge against Chan was three
years in prison. The court said it
showed leniency in the sentencing
because Chan voluntarily
confessed.
Police said it arrested more than
7,800 people last summer in
Beijing over illegal drug use. Other
celebrities, including actor Gao Hu,
were also among those detained in
what was described as the biggest
such crackdown in two decades.
Illegal drug use has ballooned in
China in recent decades, after
being virtually eradicated
following the 1949 Communist
revolution.
The trial and sentence were
especially sensitive for Jackie Chan,
who was named an anti-drug
ambassador in 2009, and sits on
China's top national political
advisory panel — the Chinese
People's Political Consultative
Conference. The actor has said that
he did not use his connections to
interfere with the case and hopes
his singer-actor son will eventually
become an anti-drug ambassador.
Ko said on camera that he had used
drugs at Chan's home. CCTV also
said Chan told police that he has
been using drugs for eight years.
Ko, whose real name is Ko Chen-
tung, has been released after a 14-
day administrative detention for
drug use.