CAIRO: The youngest son of Egypt’s ousted President Muhammad Mursi was detained by police Saturday on suspicion of drug possession, the country’s official news agency reported.

The MENA news agency said police detained son Abdullah Mursi, a 20-year old university freshman, after a police patrol found a suspicious car parked on the side of the road in El-Obour city, east of Cairo. Officers found two rolled hashish cigarettes in the car, the agency said.

Investigating police officer Lt. Col. Hazem Saad told the agency that Mursi’s son confessed to possession of the hashish— said to be around 5 grams. A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, said the car’s passengers were Mursi’s son and a friend.

Abdullah’s older brother, Osama, rejected the accusations, calling them fabricated. He said his brother just had been transferred to prosecutors and couldn’t have confessed since there hadn’t been an interrogation yet.

“This is an attempt to smear our image,” Osama Mursi, a lawyer, told to The Associated Press. “Half the members of this government consume alcohol and they are now accusing Mursi’s son of consuming a substance that alters consciousness.”