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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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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.
A second doctor was convicted for his role in the death of actor Matthew Perry. The famous actor of the Friends series had been found at his home in his hot tub. Five people are suspected of being involved in his death and two have already been convicted.
The death of Matthew Perry, in October 2023, continues to unfold its judicial and moral consequences as a persistent echo in Hollywood. This week, a federal court in Los Angeles handed down a sentence against Dr. Mark Chávez, one of the doctors involved in the network that allowed the actor access to large amounts of ketamine, the substance that would end up causing his death by overdose. The verdict: eight months of house arrest, three years of…
Doctor Mark Chavez was sentenced to eight months of house arrest on Tuesday in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry in 2023. This is reported by several American media outlets, including the BBC. In addition to the eight months of house arrest...
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