The Grammy Award-winning DJ and producer David Morales has been reoprtedly arrested at Fukuoka Airport in Japan on suspicion of smuggling 0.3g of MDMA.

According to Asahi Shimbun – one of Japan’s five national newspapers – the 56-year-old superstar DJ flew in from Hong Kong to Fukuoka Airport at approximately 3.55pm on 6 October. He was arrested shortly after when passing through customs. An officer found a plastic bag containing some crystals in his carry-on baggage. Police suspect the crystals to be 3.4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

Morales has denied knowledge of the drugs and claimed that somebody “had likely slipped it into his belongings,” according to police.

"He was arrested for allegedly violating the law on narcotics and psychotropics control," a police spokesman told news agency AFP.

Japan has a strict zero-tolerance policy on controlled substances. The penalty for possession of class A substances for personal use carries a maximum prison sentence of seven years and a fine of ¥3 million (£19, 821).

Morales was scheduled to participate in an event in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on 7 October, but apparently stopped by Fukuoka to meet with people involved in the event.

Morales shot to fame after becoming a DJ in the 1980s. His star rose further thanks largely to his remixing work. Artists to have been given the Morales remix treatment include Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Eric Clapton, Seal, Pet Shop Boys, U2, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, and Jamiroquai.

He was first nominated for a prestigious Grammy Award in 1996 as a producer on Mariah Carey’s album Daydream for the song ‘Fantasy’. He bagged himself the real thing the following year when he nabbed the gong for Remixer Of The Year.

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