Matthew Perry death: Cops arrest doctor and drug dealers over Friends star's ketamine overdose
A doctor and multiple drug dealers have been arrested over the death of beloved actor Matthew Perry.
The unnamed medic and narcotics pushers were apprehended over claims they gave the Friends star the ketamine that killed him in October 2023, TMZ reported.
The identities of those taken into police custody have not been formally disclosed, but the New York Times named Jasveen Sangha as one people arrested.
It's unclear if they have been charged.
Perry was found unresponsive in the hot tub of his LA home with his cause of death later determined to be 'the acute effects of ketamine'.
Multiple law enforcement agencies have carried out searches, seizing computers, phones and other devices to try and establish which of the suspects was responsible for giving Perry the fatal dose.
Cops investigating the death of Matthew Perry (pictured in 2018) have made multiple arrests while probing who gave the Friends star the ketamine that killed him
In his last post on Instagram, the star shared images of him in his pool. He was later found unresponsive in his hot tub
Federal charges have been filed and will be announced at a press conference later today with the US attorney for LA and the head of the DEA, reports ABC.
Los Angeles police said in May that they were working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service with a probe.
It previously emerged that Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Brooke Mueller was among those who had been interviewed 'multiple times' by LAPD in relation to the death.
However, she has not been named as one of those arrested, per TMZ.
Mueller and Perry reportedly bonded during a stint in rehab. She has remained adamant that she had nothing to do with her friend's death.
The outlet also reports the search warrant uncovered text messages discussing Perry and the ketamine he wanted, including how much he would pay for it.
The investigation additionally is said to have revealed other celebrities connected to the drug scene.
Local police and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents interviewed some 'key people in Hollywood' who are known drug users.
Pictured: The illegal narcotics that were seized from Jasveen Sangha's Hollywood home in March 2024, connected to a raid unrelated to the investigation into Matthew Perry's death
Matthew Perry is pictured on October 22 - the last time he was seen in public
Perry's LA mansion where he was found unresponsive back in October 2023
Beloved actor Perry had been receiving prescribed ketamine therapy to treat his anxiety and depression.
But he had not had one of those treatments for a week-and-a-half prior to his death.
That means the ketamine found in his system after he drowned in a hot tub at his LA home had not been prescribed.
Perry's at the age of 54 shocked the world. An autopsy attributed his death to the 'acute effects of ketamine.'
The amount in his blood was in the range used for general anesthesia during surgery.
It was listed as the primary cause of death, which was ruled an accident with no foul play suspected, the report said.
The actor had been open about his struggles with substance abuse.
In 2022, he said he estimated he had that spent $9 million battling his addictions across 15 rehab stays.
Multiple law enforcement agencies have carried out searches, seizing computers, phones and other devices to try and establish which of the suspects was responsible for giving Perry the fatal dose
The beloved Friends actor had been open about his struggles with substance abuse over the years
In a tell-all memoir, Perry claimed that he was finally sober after multiple failed attempts to get clean.
Later, sources told DailyMail.com that the 'reclusive' star would have younger hook-ups from the dating app Raya to deliver drugs to his house even while he was under the 24/7 care of a nursing team.
Despite having a nursing team at his $6 million Pacific Palisades home as well as a live-in sober companion, Perry managed to have casual hook-ups sneak him illicit drugs without detection, sources explained in December 2023.
'He would meet girls on dating apps and have them come over,' insiders claimed.
'There was a slew of 21 to 25-year-olds that he would meet on Raya. They would bring drugs with them. It was mostly Oxycontin [a powerful opioid pain killer].
'He would also get illicit drugs from old girlfriends, there was a kind of network,' a source said.
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner ruled that Perry died from an accidental ketamine overdose on October 28, 2023.
Local police and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents have interviewed some 'key people in Hollywood' who are known drug users in a bid to find out who gave Perry ketamine, an insider told TMZ. The interviewees are not 'necessarily the actual source of ketamine', but authorities believe they may have 'information leading to the source'. Pictured: Perry as Chandler Bing in Friends
He drowned in 'the heated end of his pool,' the autopsy report said, but that it was a secondary factor in his death.
The examiner's report does not specify how or when Perry had consumed the fatal dose of ketamine.
But it found that trace amounts were detected in his stomach, and that prescription medications and loose pills were present at his home.
No alcohol was detected in his system by the autopsy report. Nor were there any traces of other drugs such as cocaine, heroin or fentanyl.
Perry's ex-girlfriend Kayti Edwards who dated Perry in 2006 and worked as his assistant in 2011 at the height of his drug addiction has previously called for cops to investigate medical staff, 'to see if he had a deal with any of them to give him some ketamine on the side'.
The arrest are not the first to be brought in the case of a celebrity's fatal overdose.
Following Michael Jackson's 2009 death, his physician Dr Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after providing him with a lethal dose of propofol.
In 2021, prosecutors in New York brought charges against four men who supplied The Wire actor Michael K Williams with fentanyl-laced heroin.
