The son of actor Jackie Chan pleaded guilty in a Beijing court on Friday to providing a venue for drug users and was sentenced to six months in jail.
Jaycee Chan, 32, also was ordered to pay 2 000 yuan, or about $320, the Dongcheng District People’s Court in Beijing says on its microblog account.
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.
Xinhua said the maximum sentence for the charge was three years in prison.
His imprisonment is particularly embarrassing for his movie star father 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 told Xinhua that he did not use his connections to interfere with the case and that he hopes his singer-actor son will become an anti-drug ambassador when he is released.
‘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).