Jackie Chan's Son Sentenced to Six Months in Prison for Drug Related Offense

The son of actor Jackie Chan has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleaded guilty in a Beijing court to providing a venue for drug users. 

Police seized more than 100 grams of marijuana during an August raid at Jaycee Chan's Beijing home, while he and Taiwanese movie star Ko Kai both tested positive for the drug, it was reported. 

His imprisonment comes amid a major crackdown on illegal drugs in China, and is particularly embarrassing for his father, who in 2009 was named an anti-drug ambassador. '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). 

Police 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. 


Official News Agency Xinhua said the maximum sentence for the charge against Chan was three years in prison.