TOKYO: Japanese police have arrested model Jessica Michibata for allegedly possessing the synthetic drug MDMA, people familiar with the investigation said Monday.

The 38-year-old is suspected of possessing MDMA at a hotel in Tokyo, where she was staying with an acquaintance, the people said.

A customs officer found the drug hidden in a package that had arrived in Japan from overseas. Investigators from Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department raided the hotel, which was on the package’s shipping address, and arrested the two individuals.

A native of the central Japan prefecture of Fukui, Michibata is currently based in the United States, according to the website of her agency.

JIJI Press