Arrest made in connection with overdose death of Matthew Perry – NBC Los Angeles

A police operation was carried out on Thursday morning in connection with the ketamine-induced death of actor Matthew Perry.

Agents attempted to make arrests and at least one arrest was confirmed.

Federal agents executed several arrest warrants across Southern California early Thursday in connection with the accidental death of actor Matthew Perry last year, law enforcement sources told NBC4's “I-Team.”

Perry was 54 when he was found unconscious in the swimming pool of his Pacific Palisades-area home and was pronounced dead by paramedics.

The Los Angeles County Coroner concluded that Perry's death on October 28, 2023, was due to the acute effects of the drug ketamine, citing drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid use disorder, as contributing factors.

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LAPD detectives, as well as agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, are investigating the source of the ketamine.

Perry had been undergoing ketamine infusion therapy to treat depression and anxiety, but his last session with his treating physicians was more than a week before his death, and the medical examiner found that the ketamine in Perry's body “could not have come from that infusion therapy because the half-life of ketamine is three to four hours or less.”