Canada Reports: Arrest after actor Perry's drug-related death

Following the drug-related death of "Friends" actor Matthew Perry, the police have apparently made a breakthrough in the search for the background. According to investigators in Los Angeles, at least one person was arrested in connection with the death on Wednesday night. This was reported by TV stations ABC and NBC, among others.

It initially remained unclear whether it was one or several arrests. The successful manhunt comes more than nine months after Perry's death. The police had focused their work on how the 54-year-old had obtained the anaesthetic ketamine, which he had in his blood in unusually high quantities at the time of his death.

Ketamine overdose

Perry was found in a hot tub in his home in Los Angeles last October. Prior to this, the actor had repeatedly spoken publicly about his battle with addiction to alcohol and drugs, among other things, and also wrote about it in his autobiography "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing", which was published last year.

An investigation by the Los Angeles coroner's office revealed in December that Perry had died from the effects of ketamine. Other causes of death included drowning, heart disease and the effects of a drug used to treat opioid addiction.

According to media reports, Perry had been undergoing ketamine therapy for depression and anxiety. However, the last session before his death had been a week and a half ago, which is why the ketamine in his body at the time of death could not have come from this infusion therapy, according to the coroner's office.