Matthew Perry Death: 2nd doctor to argue guilty of delivering ketamine – National

A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry In the months prior to the overdose of the “Vrienden” star, Ketamine approved the authorities on Monday.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia has agreed to owe to four counts of distribution of Ketamine, federal prosecutors said in a statement. They said that the plea has a maximum prison sentence of 40 years in prison, and that Plasencia is expected to enter the plea in the coming weeks.

Plasencia and a woman who was accused of being a ketamine dealer had been the primary goals of the persecution after three other defendants, including another doctor, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for their cooperation.

Plasencia was planned to start in August. An e -mail to his lawyer who sought comments was not immediately answered.

The “friends” star Perry was found dead by his assistant on October 28, 2023. The medical researcher ruled that Ketamine 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 that is increasingly common.

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Perry, 54, started looking for more ketamine than his doctor would give him. About a month before the actor’s death, he found Plasencia, a doctor who in turn asked the other doctor, Mark Chavez, to obtain the medicine for him, according to judicial archives in the Chavez case.

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“I wonder how much this idiot will pay,” SMS “SMSENCIA Chavez, according to the court applications from public prosecutors. The two gathered on the same day in Costa Mesa, halfway through Santa Monica, California, where Plasencia practiced and San Diego, where Chavez practiced and exchanged at least four 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-t’, said public prosecutors.

While Plasencia is accused of supplying the majority of Perry’s ketamine in his last weeks, another suspect, Jasmine Sangha, who claims that the public prosecutor was an important ketamine dealer, would provide the dose that the actor killed. She is also planned to get to court in August. She has not guilty – so she suggested the only one of the five people who have been charged in Perry’s death, who have not taken on a plea.

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

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