Tip on actress Erika Sawajiri involves drug different from MDMA - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police received a tip about a month ago that actress Erika Sawajiri, arrested Saturday following the alleged discovery of the synthetic drug MDMA at her Tokyo home, was in possession of a different illicit drug, investigative sources said.

Erika Sawajiri (Mainichi)

The Metropolitan Police Department suspects that the 33-year-old actress might have been a chronic user of unlawful drugs, the sources said.

Sawajiri was turned over to prosecutors Sunday after spending the night at a police station in Koto Ward. Dozens of reporters and photographers had gathered from early morning to catch a glimpse of the actress, but she was seated in the curtained-off backseat of a vehicle when it left the police station.

Sawajiri, who has appeared in a number of films and TV dramas, has admitted to illegal drug possession after police found 0.09 gram of MDMA at her home in Meguro Ward.

Police are also analyzing a urine sample they obtained from Sawajiri, who left home Friday night for a nightclub in the Shibuya district, the sources said.

The MPD raided her home as soon as she returned home Saturday morning. Her mother, who lives with the actress, was at home at the time, they said, adding Sawajiri has been cooperative since her arrest.

Sawajiri was awarded the best newcomer award at the Japan Academy Film Prize for her role as an ethnic Korean girl living in Japan in "Pacchigi!" (We Shall Overcome Someday), directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu and released in January 2005.

She is also known in other parts of Asia for "1 Litre of Tears," a 2005 TV drama in which she played the lead role of a teenage girl suffering from the intractable disease spinocerebellar degeneration.

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