Doctor Who has delivered Ketamine to Matthew Perry, will argue guilty

LOS ANGELES – A doctor in charge of giving Matthew Perry Ketamine in the month prior to the overdose of the “friends” star will argue, according to an agreement submitted to court on Monday.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia agreed to argue with four counts of Distribution of Ketamine, according to the signed document that was submitted in the Federal Court in Los Angeles. In exchange for his plea, public prosecutors agreed to drop three extra counts of the distribution of ketamine and two counts of expiration records.

Federal prosecutors said in a statement that the plea has a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. They said that pee is expected to formally advocate guilty in the coming weeks.

According to a fellow suspect, Plasencia in an SMS message called the actor an “idiot” who can be exploited for money. The doctor had been one of the most important goals of the persecution, together with a woman who was accused of being a ketamine dealer. Three other defendants, including another doctor, agreed to argue last year in exchange for their cooperation.

Plasencia and the woman, Jasveen Sangha, were planned to be tried in August. An e -mail to his lawyer who sought comments was not immediately answered.

Perry was found dead by his assistant on October 28, 2023. The medical researcher ruled that Ketamine, usually used as surgical anesthesia, was the primary cause of death.

The actor had used the medicine through his regular doctor in a legal but off-label treatment for depression, which is increasingly common. Perry, 54, started looking for more ketamine than his doctor would give him.

Pasencia admitted in his plea that another patient connected him with Perry, and that about a month before the death of Perry, illegally, the actor illegally provided 20 bottles of ketamine with a total of 100 mg of the medicine, together with ketamine suction tablets and spraying.

He admitted that he hired the other doctor, Mark Chavez, to deliver the medicine for him, according to the court applications.

“I wonder how much this idiot will pay,” SMS “SMSENCIA Chavez, according to the Pleidooi agreement of Chavez. The two met the same day in Costa Mesa, halfway between the Los Angeles area where Plasencia practiced and San Diego, where Chavez practiced, and exchanged several bottles of ketamine, said the archives.

After selling the drugs to Perry for $ 4,500, Plasencia is said to have asked Chavez if he could continue to deliver them so that they could become Perry’s ‘go-to’, said public prosecutors.

Plasencia admitted that he visited Perry’s house twice and injected him with ketamine. He also left Ketamine behind and showed Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, how to inject it, according to the Iwamasa pleidooi agreement. The doctor later met iwamasa and gave him more ketamine for Perry, according to the document.

Perry also received ketamine from another source, Sangha, who claims that it was a large dealer and delivered the dose that the actor killed.

Sangha did not argue guilty – so that she suggested the only one of the five people who were charged in Perry’s death, who did not make a plea. She remains imprisoned while she waits for the process. Plasencia was released on bond after his first court performances.

Erik Fleming, a friend of Perry who said he was acting as an intermediary and drug knife, has also found guilty and has worked with public prosecutors.

None of the defendants has been convicted. The plea of ​​Plasencia does not provide specific conviction guarantees.

Perry struggled for years with addiction, dating from his time on FriendsWhen he became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing. He played with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Leblanc and David Schwimmer from 1994 to 2004 on MegaHit of NBC.