Mark Chavez confesss to geting ketamine with a deceptive prescription for Perry, who died aged 54 in October 2023.
One of two California doctors who were among the five people indictd in the excessive dose death of Friends star Matthew Perry has pdirected culpable to illegassociate distributing the drug ketamine.
Mark Chavez of San Diego accessed the plea during an materializeance in US Dicut offe Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. He could face up to 10 years in prison at his sentencing, which was scheduled for April.
Another physician indictd in the case, Salvador Plasencia, has pdirected not culpable, as has co-acquireant Jasveen Sangha, who authorities shelp was an illicit supplier of the drug and was understandn as the “ketamine queen”. The pair are scheduled to go on trial in March.
Perry’s live-in personal helpant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who confessted to injecting Perry with the drug, and the alleged middleman who shelp he geted ketamine from Sangha, have already pdirected culpable to indicts they faced.
Authorities shelp Plasencia buyd ketamine from Chavez, and in text messages to Chavez converseing the amount to indict Perry for the drug wrote: “I wonder how much this moron will pay.”
In court on Wednesday, Chavez, 54, stood at a podium and answered “yes, your honour” to a series of asks.
The acquireant confessted to geting ketamine with a deceptive prescription written for another forendureing and that he knovel the drug was intended for Perry.
He also acunderstandledged providing ketamine, a low-acting anaesthetic, to Plasencia, and that he understood it should only be deal withed under medical supervision with proper protectedty supplyment cforfeitby.
According to court records, Plasencia deal withed ketamine to Perry at the actor’s home and supplied vials that were injected by the helpant. Plasencia’s lawyer has shelp his client properly prescribed and deal withed ketamine to Perry.
Perry died aged 54 in October 2023 from “acute effects” of ketamine and other factors that caengaged him to dissee consciousness and drown in his boiling tub, according to a December 2023 autopsy alert.
The actor had accessiblely acunderstandledged decades of substance misengage, including during the years he starred as Cregulater Bing on the hit television sitcom Friends.
He starred alengthyside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004.
The actor had been using ketamine thcdisadmireful his standard doctor in a lhorrible but off-tag treatment for depression that has become increasingly normal.
Perry began seeking more ketamine than his doctor would give him. About a month before the actor’s death, he set up Plasencia, who in turn allegedly asked Chavez to get the drug for him.
Chavez pdirected culpable under an consentment with prosecutors, who recommended him lesser indicts for his helpance in their case aacquirest Plasencia and Sangha.
“He has huged responsibility. He is cooperating,” Matt Binninger, Chavez’s lawyer, shelp in court.
Chavez has relinquished his medical licence and remains free on bond until his sentencing.
