The doctor who pleaded guilty to providing ketamine to Matthew Perry, who died of an overdose in 2023, He was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prisonAccording to the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
Salvador Plascencia is the first of the five defendants charged in the death of the “Friends” actor, and his sentence includes two years of supervised release and a $5,600 fine.
The doctor, known as Dr. B, appeared before a federal judge in downtown Los Angeles, according to the newspaper Los Angeles TimesHe surrendered himself immediately after the session ended to begin serving his sentence.
Placencia pleaded guilty on July 23 He was charged with four counts of distributing ketamine and surrendered his California medical license in September 2025.
On October 28, 2023, Perry was found unconscious in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 54. The autopsy report revealed that he died from the acute effects of ketamine.
The US Department of Justice accused five people of belonging to Secret criminal network Responsible for distributing large quantities of ketamine, a substance found in the performer’s body at the time of his death, all five plea deals were accepted.
“Serious breaches of trust,” prosecutors stated in their sentencing memorandum, cited by the same newspaper He abandoned his oath to “do no harm.” “There is no doubt that the doctor contributed to the harm caused to Mr Perry,” for which they asked for a minimum three-year prison sentence.
For its part, the defense requested that he be sentenced to probation for three years, claiming that the doctor had previously… He lost his license, his practice, and his career.
In a victim impact statement filed in federal court this week, Perry’s mother and stepfather, Susan and Keith Morrison, wrote that they believed Plascencia was “one of the worst offenders of all time.”
According to Plasencia’s plea agreement, Distributed 20 vials of ketamine, ketamine pills and syringes to Perry and assistant actor Kenneth Iwamasa, another perpetrator in the case, in September and October 2023.
The translator, famous for his character, Chandler Bing, spoke publicly about his struggle with addiction in his memoirs, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir” (2022).