Doctor Who Supplied Ketamine Pleads Guilty

A doctor responsible for giving Matthew Perry Ketamine in the month preceding the death of the actor’s overdose will plead guilty. The agreement was filed in court on Monday June 16. Dr. Salvador Plasencia agreed to plead guilty to four chiefs of ketamine distribution. Plasencia was released under bail after her first justice appearances.

In relation: Several people were reportedly arrested as part of the death of the actor of “friends” Matthew Perry

Perry’s assistant found him dead on October 28, 2023. The medical examiner ruled that ketamine, generally used as surgical anesthesia, was the main cause of death. The actor had used the medication through his regular doctor in legal but outstanding MA for depression, an increasingly common method. Perry, 54, started looking for more ketamine than his doctor would give it. This is how he finally found Salvador Plasencia.

More details on the advocacy of Dr. Salvador Plasencia

In exchange for Plasencia’s plea, prosecutors agreed to remove three chiefs of distribution of ketamine and two chiefs of falsification of the files. Federal prosecutors said the plea resulting in a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. Plasencia will officially plead guilty in the coming weeks.

According to a co-accused, plasencia in a text message called the actor a “moron” which could be used for money. The doctor had been one of the main targets of the accusation, as well as a woman accused of being a ketamine merchant. Three other accused, including another doctor, agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation.

A trial for Plasencia and the woman, Jasveen Sanghawas to start in August. However, Plasencia admitted to his advocacy agreement that another patient connected him to Perry. About a month before the death of Matthew Perry, the doctor illegally provided the actor 20 bottles of ketamine totaling 100 mg of medication. He also gave her ketamine pastilles and syringes.

Other accused charged with the death of the actor

According to documents filed by the court, Salvador Plasencia admitted to having enlisted the other doctor, Mark ChavezTo provide him with the medication.

“I wonder how much this moron will pay”, “ Plasencia sent a text to Chavez, according to Chavez’s advocacy agreement.

The doctors met the same day as the text of Costa Mesa. The meeting point was halfway between the Los Angeles region, where Plasencia practiced, and San Diego, where Chavez practiced. They exchanged several bottles of ketamine. Plasencia then sold medicines to Matthew Perry for $ 4,500. After the first sale, the prosecutors said that Salvador Plasencia had asked Chavez if he could continue to provide them so that they could become “Go-to” from Perry.

Plasencia admitted to having visited Perry’s house twice and injecting it from ketamine. He also left Ketamine behind. He also showed Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth WayayHow to inject it, according to the Iwamasa advocacy agreement. The doctor later met Iwamasa and gave him more ketamine for Perry, according to the document.

Erik FlemingA friend of Perry who said he had acted as an intermediary and drug messenger, also pleaded guilty and cooperated with the prosecutors.

The defendant accused of having given a dose that killed Matthew Perry pleads not guilty

Perry also obtained ketamine from another source, Sangha. Prosecutors allege that the woman was a large dealer and provided the dose that killed Matthew Perry. Sangha pleaded not guilty, which makes her the only one of the five people accused of the death of Perry who did not conclude an agreement on the advocacy. She stays in prison as she is waiting for her trial.

None of the accused has yet been sentenced. Plasencia’s advocacy agreement does not make any specific guarantee of determining the sentence.

The writer AP Entertainment Andrew Dalton contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.