VIDEO – DR. SNITCH –
Aug. 31, 2024 – The cooperation of Dr. Mark Chavez, who has agreed to a plea deal in the criminal case stemming from actor Matthew Perry’s fatal ketamine overdose, could help federal prosecutors in California make their case against Dr. Salvador Plasencia, the other doctor who’s been charged.
Plasencia is indicted alongside Jasveen Sangha, whom prosecutors say is also known as “the Ketamine Queen.” Both have pleaded not guilty.
A total of five people have been charged, including Chavez and two others who have already pleaded guilty: Erik Fleming, who admitted to distributing the ketamine that killed Perry, and Kenneth Iwamasa, the actor’s live-in personal assistant.
Fleming admitted that he got the ketamine from Sangha and distributed it to Iwamasa. Prosecutors said that Iwamasa conspired with Sangha, Fleming and Plasencia to obtain ketamine illegally and provide it to Perry, and that Iwamasa admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry with the powerful anesthetic without medical training, including multiple times on Oct. 28, 2023, the day the “Friends” actor died.
