Salvador Plasencia: A second doctor of Matthew Perry accepts to declare himself guilty of distributing the drug that caused his death | People

Salvador Plasencia, one of the doctors involved in the death of Matthew Perry in October 2023, has agreed to declare himself guilty of supplying ketamine to the actor, according to legal documents that have arrived this Monday to the courts of Los Angeles (California). Plasencia has not yet been officially convicted of, a total of four positions are expected, something that will do a few days in court. According to the documents, the doctor – who had a clinic in Malibu, where Perry lived – distributed 20 Ketamine vials, as well as capsules and syringes, to Perry and his assistant, at an exorbitant price.

Plasencia, 43, is one of the two doctors and the five detainees in relation to the death of the actor, who died drowned in the pool of his house because of the consumption of very high amounts of ketamine. Face several positions, among them for altering and falsifying documents related to the investigation of Perry’s death. He was accused of getting the ketamine that reached Perry. In his guilt agreement, Plasencia “admits that his behavior was below the appropriate level of medical care and that Ketamine road transfers (…) to victim MP did not have a legitimate medical purpose.” During the investigation, his messages were famous: “I wonder how much more this fool will pay” for the drug, he wrote Plasencia in September 2023, one month before the death of the interpreter. “We are going to find out,” added the other doctor.

In August 2024, 10 months after the death of the actor, Los Angeles police decided to stop five people in relation to his death. They were Salvador Plasencia and another doctor, named Mark Chávez, as well as a trafficker named Jasveen Sangha and known as The queen of ketamine; a camel called Erik Fleming; and the personal assistant of the interpreter, Kenneth Iwamasa. They all faced high prison sentences, some up to 100 years. “With this we want to launch a message: if you are in the illegal drug business, we will take you to justice for the deaths you provoke,” said the prosecutor when the arrests took place.

A few months later, in October 2024, Chávez declared himself guilty of a conspiracy charge for distributing the ketamine that caused Perry’s death. Both Iwamasa and Fleming have also declared guilty. Trafficker Sangha declared himself not guilty. Now, eight months later, it is Plasencia who will also declare the distribution of ketamine. His medical license expired in October 2024 and cannot work. On bail of $ 100,000, it now faces up to 40 years in jail.

Around September 2023, Salvador Plasencia knew that Matthew Perry was interested in obtaining ketamine, and there he contacted his colleague Mark Chávez. Perry had taken ketamine as part of a treatment to help overcome anxiety and depression tables, but in low doses and through clinics with iron controls. But they became doctors who could have access to it in large doses. Through Sangha and Fleming, they both sent the drug to the actor. His assistant, Iwamasa, was the one who was injected. The orders went to more, and the doctors began to look great; Hence those messages about how much I would pay “this fool.”

Plasencia came to write to Chávez who wanted them to become its only suppliers. Each road cost just $ 12: they charged 55,000 for 20, that is, more than 200 times its price. They taught Iwamasa how to inject the drug to his boss; In addition, at least one occasion plasence itself injected Perry said substance when he was in his car in a parking lot. On the day of his death, Perry died from a strong dose provided by Iwamasa with a plasence syringe. Then he asked him to prepare the jacuzzi. There he died.

During the investigation by the United States drug control office, the DEA, Plasencia lied, stating that they had prepared a medical treatment plan for which they gave only 60 milligrams of ketamine every 24 hours. Then, it was learned that the doses were much older, causing a great addiction. “Plasencia and Chavez violated their oaths as doctors to take care of their patients. They caused many damages only to make money,” said the director of the DEA when the research was known.

Matthew Perry, who played the remembered Chandler Bing in the series Friends Between 1994 and 2004, he died on October 28, 2023. He was 54 years old and a long history of addictions that he had reported in a memoir. In Friends, lovers and that so terrible (Contraluz, November 2022), gave an account of his problems with alcohol and drugs. “There were years when I was sober during that time. The ninth season was the year I was sober all the time,” he said then.