An accused doctor in relation to the death of Matthew Perry agreed to declare himself guilty of distributing Ketamine to the star of friends, according to a guilt agreement presented on Monday.
Dr. Salvador Plasencia, known as Dr. P., was one of the five people accused last year derived from the research on the death of Perry's October. Plasencia faces up to 40 years in prison for the four ketamine distribution positions.
Plasencia had previously faced a variety of positions, which include altering and falsifying documents or records related to federal research.
The plasence lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Three other defendants declared themselves guilty last year in relation to Perry's death, including Dr. Mark Chávez; Kenneth Iwamasa, who was Live-in Perry's personal assistant; and alleged drug trafficker Erik Fleming.
The fifth accused, Jasveen Sangha, also known as the “Queen Ketamine”, declared himself innocent.
Perry, 54, was found dead in the hydromassage bathtub of his home of Pacific Palisades on October 28. He died of “acute effects of the ketamine,” according to the Los Angeles County Forensic Doctor's office.
Plasencia was accused of acquiring ketamine for Perry and acting out of the reach of professional practice. The authorities say that he not only distributed the drug that killed Perry, but also taught Iwamasa how to inject her into the actor. Iwamasa is accused of giving Perry the fatal dose.
Perry, who had long been open about his challenges with drug addiction and alcohol, had sought treatment for depression and anxiety before his death, going to a local clinic where he became addicted to intravenous cetamina, said the administrator of the DEA, Anne Milgram. When the doctors of the clinic refused to increase their dose, he turned to external sources, Milgram said.
At the end of September, approximately one month before Perry's death, Plasencia learned that the actor was interested in obtaining ketamine, a legal medication commonly used as anesthesia, according to the accusation. The drug can be abused of recreational, with users attracted to its dissociative effects.
After learning about Perry's interest, Plasencia contacted Chávez, who had previously operated a ketamine clinic, to obtain the medicine to sell to the actor, authorities said. In the text messages to Chávez, Plasencia discussed how much to charge Perry for the ketamine, stating: “I wonder how much this fool will pay” and “we discover it,” according to the accusation.
Plasencia also wrote in messages to Chávez saying that he did not want Perry “to look elsewhere” for his supply of ketamine. According to the accusation, Plasencia wrote that he wanted to be “his go.”
In the following weeks, doctors distributed 20 Ketamine vials to Perry for $ 55,000 in cash, charging $ 2,000 for a road that cost Chávez $ 12, according to federal prosecutors and judicial records.
Federal prosecutors claim that Plasencia taught Iwamasa how to inject Ketamine Perry, sold the drug to the assistant and left roads so that Iwamasa inject into the actor. At one point, a large dose made Perry “freeze”, prosecutors said the doctor is also accused of injected Perry with the drug into a car in a Long Beach parking lot.
“Matthew Perry's trip began with unscrupulous doctors who abused his position of trust because they saw him as a day of payment and ended with street merchants who sold Ketamine in unmarked roads,” said the administrator of the United States drug control administration, Anne Milgram, during a press conference last year.
“The despair that led Perry to these people did not receive help, as it should have been from doctors,” he said, “but instead he found exploitation.”
Court records) show that, in mid -October, Iwamasa also began to obtain ketamine for Sangha Perry and Hollywood producer Erik Fleming, who provided the drug at a lower cost than the doctors they charged. Sangha sold about 50 roads from the drug to the actor, with Fleming delivering the product, for $ 11,000, authorities said.
After Perry's death, Plasencia was accused of giving officials counterfeit documents that show a Perry medical treatment plan that said they gave him a maximum dose of 60 milligrams for 24 hours. In fact, prosecutors say, Perry was injecting much higher doses.
Fleming declared himself guilty of a conspiracy charge to distribute ketamine and a ketamine distribution charge that resulted in death.
Iwamasa, 59, declared himself guilty of a conspiracy charge to distribute ketamine causing death. He also admitted to having injected Perry with ketamine without medical training, including the realization of several injections in the actor the day he died, authorities said.
