Multiple arrests have been made in connection with Matthew Perry’s death, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the situation.
Charges will be announced at a press conference in Los Angeles, along with details of Perry’s actions, the source said.
The beloved actor who starred as Chandler Bing on Friends was declared dead after being found floating face down in the pool of his Pacific Palisades home in October at the age of 54.
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The actor died as a result of “acute effects of ketamine” and subsequent drowning, according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Office autopsy report.
In May, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Scot Williams told CNN that an investigation into Perry’s death was ongoing and criminal in nature. The US Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Postal Inspection Service were also involved in the investigation.
Police investigators walk along the street where Matthew Perry’s house is in Pacific Palisades Saturday night. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag
“Hypothetically there’s a potential for criminal culpability depending on what the investigation undercovers, but at this point, we’re not there yet,” he said at the time.
Williams said authorities were looking into how Perry got the drugs and who may have supplied them.
Perry had detailed his decades-long struggles with drug addiction. Ketamine has seen a surge in use in recent years as a treatment for depression, anxiety and pain.
People close to Perry told coroner’s investigators that he was undergoing ketamine infusion therapy before his death, according to The Associated Press, and he was being treated by at least two doctors.
Perry’s death was met with shock as he was beloved on Friends between 1994 and 2004, where he starred alongside Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow.
He also appeared in films including Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards and 17 Again.