US EditionDoctor who supplied ketamine to late Friends star Matthew Perry jailed
Salvador Plasencia received a 2.5-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to four counts of illegally distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry, though not linked to his fatal dose.
- In Los Angeles, Salvador Plasencia was jailed for two-and-a-half years for illegally supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry, actor best known as Chandler Bing on Friends.
- Amid questions about supply, court records show Salvador Plasencia changed his plea earlier this year, admitting 4 counts of distribution and losing his medical license.
- Court filings reveal messages from Plasencia, including a text where the 44-year-old doctor said, `I wonder how much this moron will pay.`
- In victim impact statements, Suzanne and Keith Morrison called those involved `jackals` and said Salvador Plasencia was "among the most culpable of all," while John and Debbie Perry said Plasencia's actions had `devastated` their family and were not the result of "one very bad decision."
- Plasencia is the first of five people to be sentenced in the investigation exposing a drug-supply network linked to Matthew Perry, actor from Friends .
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The court in Los Angeles sentenced El Salvador ' s doctor Plasencia, accused of selling ketamine to actor Matthew Perry shortly before his death, to two and a half years in prison, CNN reports.
In July, Dr. Salvador Plasencia acknowledged that he had sold 20 bottles of legally regulated anaesthetic to the actor, and promised to voluntarily give up the practice of medicine.
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