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Mark Chavez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine linked to Matthew Perry's overdose, receiving 8 months home detention and 3 years supervised release, Judge Garnett ruled.
- On Tuesday, Mark Chavez, former California doctor, was sentenced to 8 months of home detention and 3 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett in Los Angeles.
- Chavez pleaded guilty in 2024 to one count of conspiring to distribute ketamine to Perry, prosecutors said he sold ketamine to Salvador Plasencia, doctor, who then distributed it to Perry.
- Perry was undergoing ketamine infusion therapy to treat depression and anxiety, with coroner findings indicating dangerously high ketamine levels similar to those used for surgery, prosecutors said.
- He will also be required to complete 300 hours of community service and pay a $100 special assessment, having faced up to 10 years in prison; earlier this month, Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison.
- Chavez had been a licensed physician in San Diego who operated a ketamine clinic, while the coroner ruled Perry's death an accident and Perry described struggles in his 2022 memoir.
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A San Diego physician who helped sell ketamine to the late ‘Friends’ actor Matthew Perry avoided prison on Tuesday and was instead sentenced to home confinement. U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett sentenced Dr. Mark Chavez, a 55-year-old former physician from San Diego, to eight months of home confinement, three years of supervised release, and 300 hours of community service. Chavez had pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one count of cons…
Mark Chavez, one of Matthew Perry's doctors who died of a ketamine overdose in 2023, has become the second person convicted in the actor's death. A judge has sentenced him to eight months of house arrest and three years of supervised release.
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The former doctor who pleaded guilty to one charge in connection with the overdose death of actor Matthew Perry has been sentenced to home detention, per multiple reports. Mark Chavez pleaded guilty in 2024 to one count of conspiring to distribute ketamine to the “Friends” star. Chavez was sentenced to 8 months of home detention and 3 years of supervised release on Tuesday. He will also be required to complete 300 hours of community service, per…
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