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[FLGators]

Five people – including two California doctors, a reputed drug dealer known as the "ketamine queen" and Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant – have been charged in connection with the actor's accidental overdose death, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

According to an 18-count superseding indictment, Jasveen Sangha, a North Hollywood resident who sold ketamine and other drugs, provided Perry's assistant with the ketamine that ultimately led to the actor's death. The assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, injected Perry with the drug on the day he died, according to the indictment. The syringe was provided by Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who had also distributed ketamine to Perry and his assistant in the past, the indictment says.

Sangha, 41, and Plasencia, 42, were both arrested on Thursday in southern California.

They were both charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. Sangha, a North Hollywood resident who holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and U.K., was also charged with several other drug related offenses.

[Etoile308]

@FLGators, thanks for the update.

I wouldn't be surprised if these weren't tentacles to a larger investigation.

[beckyb1012]

People is reporting that Matthew's assistant as already plead guilty to injecting him many times and on the day of his death.  

[Grand Happy]

One of the last statements Matthew made was :
I want to be known as someone who helped others and not from Friends.
Five are facing charges, not surprised on bit.
RIP Matthew 🙌

[San Antonio Gal]

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@beckyb1012 wrote:

People is reporting that Matthew's assistant as already plead guilty to injecting him many times and on the day of his death.  

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This is so awful @beckyb1012 .  I hate to hear this.  

[shoekitty]

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@PhilaLady1 wrote:

I am not sure how I feel about people being charged.  It is not the fault of those who provided the drugs to Matthew.  A sad fact is that an addict will do whatever they need to do to get what their body and brain craves.  Ordinary people die every day from addiction without authorities looking into where they got the stuff. The general public wants someone to blame.  Noone forced the poor guy to buy what he needed.

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Shoekitty. Maybe because it's a crime?   California clearly states it is against the law to provide drugs to another person. Not even a prescription. If I gave my friend some medication that caused harm.  In other words law enforcement found out. I would be charged accordingly. As woukd anyone who bought , sold or provided minors or those on parole, forbidden to drink by law.  Bar tenders can be charged with manslaughter for letting someone drunk drive or cause  harm. It's the law.  That's why we have DUI, and such.  It's the law 

[San Antonio Gal]

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@PhilaLady1 wrote:

I am not sure how I feel about people being charged.  It is not the fault of those who provided the drugs to Matthew.  A sad fact is that an addict will do whatever they need to do to get what their body and brain craves.  Ordinary people die every day from addiction without authorities looking into where they got the stuff. The general public wants someone to blame.  Noone forced the poor guy to buy what he needed.

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@PhilaLady1  -    From the article:

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[FLGators]

Some of the behavior was criminal. There is evidence that they tried to clean up after his death. His live-in assistant of 25 years was part of the drug network, sad! 

For anyone interested the entire article can be found on ABC(google title - 5 charged in Matthew Perry's ketamine death as new details emerge). Some highlights from the article....

Estrada said that in the fall of 2023, Perry, who has struggled with addiction in the past, "fell back into addiction, and these defendants took advantage to profit for themselves."

Plasencia allegedly worked with Chavez to obtain ketamine and with Iwamasa to distribute that ketamine to Perry. Over two months, they distributed approximately 20 viles of ketamine to Perry in exchange for $55,000 in cash, Estrada said.

"Plasencia saw this as an opportunity to profit off of Mr. Perry," Estrada said, noting that the doctor allegedly wrote in text messages, "I wonder how much this moron will pay," and that he wanted to be the actor's "go-to for drugs."

The vials cost the doctors $12 but they were selling them for $2,000 a vial to Perry, authorities said.

As a doctor, Plasencia "knew the danger of what he was doing" and allegedly told another patient that Perry was "spiraling out of control with his addiction," Estrada said.

"Nevertheless, he continued to offer ketamine to Mr. Perry," Estrada said.

Plea details from his assistant....

Iwamasa's plea agreement also details the day Perry died.

At Perry's direction, Iwamasa injected him with a shot of ketamine at approximately 8:30 a.m., then again at 12:45 p.m. while the actor watched a movie, according to the plea agreement.

About 40 minutes later,Perry asked his assistant to prepare the jacuzzi for him and "'shoot me up a big one,' referring to another shot of ketamine," the plea agreement stated.

Iwamasa admitted to administering the shot while Perry was in or near the jacuzzi, then leaving the house to run errands for him, according to the document.

[KittySoftPaws]

@FLGators  This is disturbing on every level, and so sad. I really like him as an actor. What is Ketamine? I have never heard of that one.

[elated]

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@KittySoftPaws wrote:

@FLGators  This is disturbing on every level, and so sad. I really like him as an actor. What is Ketamine? I have never heard of that one.

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Ketamine induces a state of dissociative anesthesia, a trance-like state providing pain relief, sedation and amnesia.Its distinguishing features as anesthesia are preserved breathing and airway reflexes, stimulated heart function with increased blood pressure, and moderate bronchodilation.At lower, sub-anesthetic doses, it is a promising agent for pain and treatment-resistant depression. As with many antidepressants, the results of a single administration wane with time.The long-term effects of repeated use are largely unknown, and are an area of active investigation.