The second of two medical doctors who pleaded responsible in reference to Matthew Perry‘s demise was sentenced Tuesday … and the decide gave Dr. Mark Chavez a reasonably mild sentence.
United States District Choose Sherilyn Peace Garnett sentenced Chavez to eight months’ residence confinement and ordered him to finish 300 hours of neighborhood service.
In October 2024, Chavez pleaded responsible to at least one depend of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. He shortly reduce a cope with the feds after a slew of arrests have been made in reference to Perry’s demise. Chavez admitted to promoting ketamine to Dr. Salvador Plasencia, which was then offered to Perry weeks earlier than the actor’s deadly overdose.
Prosecutors mentioned Chavez obtained the ketamine fraudulently by submitting a prescription within the title of a affected person with out the affected person’s information or consent.
Earlier this month, Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months in federal jail after pleading responsible to 4 counts of distributing ketamine.
In a textual content dialogue over how a lot to cost Perry for the medicine, Plasencia wrote to Chavez, “I wonder how much this moron will pay.”
The textual content was highlighted in a sufferer influence letter written to the decide by Perry’s stepfather, Keith Morrison.
He wrote, “This doctor conspired to break his most important vows, repeatedly, sneaked through the night to meet his victim in secret. For what, a few thousand dollars? So he could feed on the vulnerability of our son…and crow, as he did so, with that revealing question: ‘I wonder how much this moron will pay. Let’s find out.'”
As you realize … Perry overdosed on ketamine and drowned in his scorching tub again in 2023.
Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, drug seller Erik Fleming, and the so-called “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha are anticipated to be sentenced within the coming weeks.
