A man was arrested for a month for the United States immigration and customs services (ICE) after the police confused a bottle of perfume, which he had in his possession, with Opium, reports The Guardian this Saturday, October 4.
On May 3, Kapil Ragu, an Indian citizen married to an American, was arrested by Benton police, near Little Rock in Arkansas, due to a road offense committed by the delivery, says lawyer Mike Laux.
The capture? During this control, the authorities discovered a perfume with the inscription “opium”. A video broadcast on YouTube and broadcast on the local television channel Thv11 shows the police to arrest it for possession of narcotics, although it states that the word “opium” only refers to the name of the perfume, sold by Yves Saint Laurent.
“You have an opium vial on the central console, he will sit,” said a Kapil Raghu officer in the images.
“They knew when they opened the bottle that was a bottle of colony, he points to his partner, Ashley Mays, with the black star of Atlanta. No one had the integrity of saying: ‘Wait, there is something wrong.'”
Sent to an immigration center
If the Arkansas criminal laboratory confirmed that the substance was aroma, Kapil Raghu spent three days in the Saline County prison. The beginning of the problems for him because the authorities discovered a “legal administrative error” that demonstrates that his vision status had expired, according to his lawyer.
As a result, he was put in police custody and then sent to a Federal Immigration Center in Louisiana, where he was arrested for 30 additional days. A difficult period during which his wife called him every night, according to his words with THV11.
“I was crying, and my daughter -in -law, a bible in the chest, cried. I was crying a lot and planned to sell their cars and move to another country where we could live happy,” he explains.
“It was a torture, because they accumulated excrements in the cell. They have a timer in the toilets that only prescribe the at a time per hour, illustrated their spouse in the black star of Atlanta. It is purely vegetarian, but they did not give him food without meat on his plate.”
“Expulsion state” and financial difficulties
If the charges ended up being officially abandoned, their arrest in ICE has put in danger the steps of Kapil Raghu to obtain US citizenship. His work visa was also revoked, according to his wife, who launched an award to cover in particular the legal costs incurred.
“Although released, Kapil now benefits from an ‘state of expulsion’: it can be immediately expelled for any minor crime, even to cross out his nails, he denounces his lawyer Mike Laux, cited by The Guardian. But, what is more important, this classification prevents him from working and providing the needs of his family, which was devastating for her.”
In a letter sent by Kapil Raghu to Ice, he explains that his lawyer did not “deposit” the required documents before the expiration of his visa. “It made me vulnerable and placed me in my current situation,” he describes. He wore an electronic bracelet for a month and was now under house arrest, monitored by the authorities through an application installed on his phone.
“My wife carries all the financial burden alone, because I cannot work currently. The growing legal costs and the pressure of not being able to contribute financially have created a difficult situation for our family, and handling it has become increasingly difficult,” he wrote in another place.
In total, the couple spent $ 20,000 and Kapil Raghu’s partner contracted a loan to fight and avoid their expulsion to India, emphasizes Atlanta Black Star.
Ashley Mays claims to have filed a complaint with the internal affairs of the Local Police, but the investigation has not yet ended. With her husband, they plan to bring legal actions.
Source: BFM TV
