The doctor accused of having provided Matthew Perry Ketamine will plead guilty of having distributed the medication

Los Angeles (AP) – A doctor responsible for giving Matthew Perry Ketamine in the month preceding the death of the star of the star of “friends” agreed to plead guilty, the authorities announced on Monday.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia agreed to plead guilty to four chiefs of ketamine distribution, federal prosecutors said in a statement. They said the advocacy led to a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and that the Plasencia should enter the plea in the coming weeks.

Plasecia and a woman accused of being a Ketamine merchant had been the main targets of the accusation, after three other defendants, including another doctor, accepted to plead guilty in exchange for their cooperation.

Plasencia was to start the trial in August. An email to his lawyer asking for comments was not immediately answered.

The star of “friends” Perry was found dead by his assistant on October 28, 2023. The medical examiner ruled that ketamine was the main cause of death. The actor had used the medication through his regular doctor in a legal treatment but out of AMM for depression which has become more and more common.

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

“I wonder how much this moron will pay,” Plasencia told Chavez, according to the legal deposits of the prosecutors. The two met the same day in Costa Mesa, halfway between Santa Monica, California, where Plasencia practiced and San Diego, where Chavez practiced, and exchanged at least four bottles of ketamine, according to deposits.

After sold the medication in Perry for $ 4,500, Plasencia would have asked Chavez if he could continue to provide them so that they could become “Go-to” from Perry, prosecutors said.

While Plasencia is accused of having provided most of Perry Ketamine in his last weeks, another accused, Jasmine Sangha, who alleges that the prosecutors were a large concessionaire of Ketamine, would have provided the dose that killed the actor. It must also be judged in August. She pleaded not guilty – making her the only one of the five people charged in the death of Perry who did not conclude an adviser to advocate.

Pear struggling with dependence For years, going back to his time on “Friends”, when he has become one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing. He played next Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Leblanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 The megahit of NBC.