A British student has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport and is being held in the US on drug charges after allegedly trying to smuggle 13 t-shirts soaked with methamphetamine in her suitcase.

Myah Saakwa-Mante, 20, said she had stopped in LA for a couple of days while travelling to Brisbane, Australia, on a Qantas Airlines flight to meet her boyfriend for the first time. However, her pink luggage was flagged for anomalies when passing through an X-ray machine on November 2.