Matthew Perry's 'Dr. P' sentenced to prison for supplying actor with ketamine before death

A erstwhile doc who supplied ketamine to “Friends” prima Matthew Perry successful the weeks starring up to the actor’s decease was sentenced Wednesday to service 30 months — astir 2 and a fractional years — successful national prison.

Salvador Plasencia, known to Perry arsenic “Dr. P,” according to tribunal filings, appeared earlier a national justice Wednesday successful downtown Los Angeles. He instantly surrendered aft the proceeding to statesman serving his time.

Plasencia was besides sentenced to 2 years of supervised merchandise and ordered to wage a good of $5,600.

Plasencia pleaded blameworthy to 4 felony counts of ketamine organisation successful July. He was 1 of 5 radical charged past twelvemonth successful transportation with Perry’s decease successful October 2023.

Prosecutors had asked the justice to condemnation Plasencia to 3 years, acknowledging that Plasencia did not supply the ketamine that killed the actor. But, the prosecutors said successful a sentencing memo, the doctor’s “egregious breaches of spot and abandonment of his oath to ‘do nary harm’ undoubtedly contributed to the harm that Mr. Perry suffered.”

Plasencia’s attorneys asked that helium beryllium placed connected 3 years of supervised release.

“Given the punishment Mr. Plasencia has already experienced, and volition proceed to acquisition for galore years to come, a condemnation of imprisonment is neither indispensable nor warranted,” his lawyers wrote successful a sentencing memo. “He has already mislaid his aesculapian license, his clinic, and his career.”

Perry’s parents elaborate their grief successful affectional unfortunate interaction statements submitted up of sentencing. Suzanne and Keith Morrison, Perry’s parent and stepfather, wrote that they believed Plasencia “is among the astir culpable of all.”

“Sometimes it’s a small easier to recognize erstwhile a idiosyncratic commits a unspeakable crime. Maybe successful the vigor of passion, oregon due to the fact that that idiosyncratic makes 1 precise atrocious decision. Or immoderate cause dealer, atrocious to the bone, who takes the calculated hazard of getting caught and spending galore years successful prison. But … a doctor? Who trades connected respect, and trust?” they wrote. “No 1 live and successful interaction with the satellite astatine each could person been unaware of Matthew’s struggles. But this doc conspired to interruption his astir important vows, repeatedly, sneaked done the nighttime to conscionable his unfortunate successful secret. For what, a fewer 1000 dollars? So helium could provender connected the vulnerability of our son.”

John and Debbie Perry, Perry’s begetter and stepmother, addressed Plasencia straight successful their letter, penning that their son’s betterment “counted connected you saying NO.”

“What ever were you thinking? How agelong did you perchance spot supplying Matthew countless doses without his decease to yet follow? Did you care? Did you think,” they wrote. “How galore much radical person you harmed that we don’t cognize about?”

Plasencia was 1 of 5 co-conspirators named successful an indictment past year, including Dr. Mark Chavez, Perry’s acquaintance Erik Fleming, and erstwhile idiosyncratic adjunct Kenneth Iwamasa. All of them person since pleaded guilty. Jasveen Sangha, a North Hollywood pistillate allegedly known arsenic the “Ketamine Queen,” has besides pleaded blameworthy and is awaiting sentencing for selling drugs to Perry.

Perry, 54, was recovered dormant successful the blistery tub of his Pacific Palisades location 2 years agone connected Oct. 28. He died from “acute effects of ketamine,” according to the Los Angeles County aesculapian examiner’s office. Authorities accidental the actor’s last dose, injected by Iwamasa, was not provided by Plasencia.

According to the plea agreement, Plasencia was the proprietor and relation of Malibu Canyon Urgent Care, a session successful Calabasas. He had applied and received authorization from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to dispense, administer and prescribe narcotics and different controlled substances, arsenic agelong arsenic those prescriptions were for a morganatic aesculapian purpose.

In precocious September 2023, astir a period earlier Perry’s death, Plasencia was introduced to Perry by 1 of his patients, who said the histrion was a “high-profile person” consenting to wage “cash and tons of thousands” for ketamine treatment, according to the agreement.

Plasencia admitted successful the statement that helium spoke to the histrion by telephone and continued to speech texts with Perry astir the petition for ketamine, a ineligible medicine commonly utilized arsenic an anesthetic. The cause tin beryllium abused recreationally, with users drawn to its dissociative effects.

After learning of Perry’s interest, Plasencia contacted Chavez, who had antecedently operated a ketamine clinic, to get the cause to merchantability to the actor, according to the indictment. In substance messages to Chavez, Plasencia discussed however overmuch to complaint Perry for the ketamine, stating, “I wonderment however overmuch this moron volition pay,” and “Lets find out,” according to the indictment.

In a missive to the justice up of sentencing, Plasencia said helium treated Perry with ketamine and near vials with Iwamasa “despite signs of addiction.” He wrote that the ample sums of wealth were appealing due to the fact that his urgent attraction was struggling financially and helium could “barely enactment afloat.”

“I did not acceptable retired to harm anyone, but my decisions during those days betrayed my work arsenic a physician,” Plasencia wrote. “I crossed lines that nary doc should ever cross. No 1 forced maine to bash this; it was my ain mediocre judgement and it was wrong.”