Drug-doctor will get prison time.
The prosecutions on the overdose death of ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry seem to be drawing to a close.
A total of five defendants entered guilty pleas in the case, with charges of illegal distribution of ketamine and related offenses tied to Perry’s overdose.
One of the two doctors charged in connection with the illegal distribution of ketamine to Perry has been sentenced.
Dr. Salvador Placencia had no comment as he walked in to be sentenced in connection to Friends Actor Matthew Perry’s death. Prosecutors are calling for a 3 year sentence, while he faces a maximum of 40. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/1Fde2zgvfg
— Mario Ramirez (@MarioFOXLA) December 3, 2025
Here for sentencing of Salvador Plasencia, who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry in weeks leading up to his death. Perry’s parents wrote impact statements.
“How long did you possibly see supplying Matthew countless doses without his death to eventually follow? Did you care?” pic.twitter.com/RKCTbvvtxV
— Brittny Mejia (@brittny_mejia) December 3, 2025
CBS News reported:
“In a downtown LA courtroom on Wednesday, Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months in prison for supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry and his assistant. Plasencia had previously pleaded guilty to charges in July.”
JUST IN: A doctor who admitted to distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry weeks before he died has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison — the first to be sentenced among the five people convicted in connection with the actor’s 2023 overdose death. https://t.co/Fs5yf0SB4R pic.twitter.com/KkaRd41H7t
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) December 3, 2025
Perry was found floating face-down in a jacuzzi at his LA home on Oct. 28, 2023. It was determined he died from the ‘acute effects of ketamine’.
“In his plea agreement, Plasencia admitted that about a month before Perry’s death, he illegally supplied the actor with 20 vials of ketamine, which totaled 100 mg, along with ketamine lozenges and syringes. The doctor also admitted to enlisting another doctor, Mark Chavez, to supply the drug for him, according to the court documents.
After selling the drugs to Perry for $4,500, Plasencia allegedly asked Chavez if he could keep supplying them so they could become Perry’s ‘go-to’, prosecutors said.
[…] Jasveen Sangha, known as the ‘Ketamine Queen’, who is charged with supplying the drugs that caused Perry’s death, is expected to be sentenced on Dec. 10. In August, Sangha previously pleaded guilty to three counts of distribution of ketamine, one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury and one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises.”
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