Matthew Perry's Doctor Mark Chavez Enters Plea in Ketamine Death Case

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A doc charged successful the decease of Matthew Perry has pleaded blameworthy to conspiring to administer ketamine to the precocious Friends actor.

California doc Dr. Mark Chavez entered the plea during an quality successful a Los Angeles tribunal Oct. 2, NBC News reported. Despite making a plea woody with prosecutors, helium volition inactive faces up to 10 years of situation erstwhile helium is sentenced April 2, 2025, it was elaborate successful court.

As helium awaits sentencing, the 54-year-old, who had already surrendered his passport, remains retired connected enslaved and agreed to nary longer signifier medicine, NBC News reported.

Chavez is 1 of 5 radical charged successful the decease of Perry, who accidentally died successful October 2023 of a "acute effects of ketamine" that helped pb him to drown successful his blistery tub, an December 2023 autopsy study showed. 

The doc had operated a ketamine session and sold ketamine lozenges to Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who past distributed them to Perry and has pleaded not blameworthy to 1 number of conspiracy to administer ketamine successful transportation with the case, NBC News reported.

The Department of Justice had said successful August Placensia allegedly exchanged substance messages with Chavez to find however overmuch wealth they could get the actor—who had been unfastened astir his conflict with addiction—to walk connected the drug, with Plasencia allegedly penning astatine 1 point, "I wonderment however overmuch this moron volition pay."

Both physicians person besides surrendered their registrations to constitute prescriptions, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confirmed to E! News Aug. 19.

Placensia has entered a not blameworthy plea to 1 number of conspiracy to administer ketamine.

Chavez’s lawyer, Matthew Binninger, had told reporters aft his client's arraignment that month, "He is trying to bash everything successful his powerfulness to close the incorrect that happened here. He is doing everything successful his powerfulness to cooperate, to assistance successful this situation, and he's incredibly remorseful."

The different 3 charged successful transportation with Perry’s decease are his adjunct Kenneth Iwamasa and person Erik Fleming, who person pleaded guilty to ketamine-related charges and await sentencing, and Jasveen Sangha, an alleged cause trader dubbed the "ketamine queen," who has pleaded not guilty.