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Mark Chavez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine linked to Matthew Perry's overdose, receiving 8 months home detention and 3 years supervised release, Judge Garnett ruled.
- On Tuesday, Mark Chavez, former California doctor, was sentenced to 8 months of home detention and 3 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett in Los Angeles.
- Chavez pleaded guilty in 2024 to one count of conspiring to distribute ketamine to Perry, prosecutors said he sold ketamine to Salvador Plasencia, doctor, who then distributed it to Perry.
- Perry was undergoing ketamine infusion therapy to treat depression and anxiety, with coroner findings indicating dangerously high ketamine levels similar to those used for surgery, prosecutors said.
- He will also be required to complete 300 hours of community service and pay a $100 special assessment, having faced up to 10 years in prison; earlier this month, Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison.
- Chavez had been a licensed physician in San Diego who operated a ketamine clinic, while the coroner ruled Perry's death an accident and Perry described struggles in his 2022 memoir.
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Doctor Mark Chavez was sentenced to eight months of house arrest on Tuesday in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry in 2023. This is reported by several American media outlets, including the BBC. In addition to the eight months of house arrest...
"Friends" star Matthew Perry had anesthetic in his blood when he died. The trail led to doctors and middlemen. Now a physician is sentenced - but he is spared a prison sentence.
Doctor Mark Chávez was sentenced to three years of supervised release, with eight months of house arrest and 300 hours of community service
Matthew Perry Doctor, 2nd to Be Sentenced in 'Friends' Actor's Death, Gets 8 Months of Home Confinement
A San Diego doctor who pleaded guilty last year to illegally supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry was sentenced Tuesday to eight months of home confinement for his role in a drug distribution scheme tied to the “Friends” star’s 2023 overdose death. U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett also sentenced Dr. Mark Chavez to three years of supervised release and ordered him to complete 300 hours of community service, according to court documents o…
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