Perry was a victim of a ketamine distribution network

authorities California They assured the actor on Thursday Matthew Perry are victims of a clandestine criminal network distributing ketamine, they note that so far they have defendant Five people were held responsible for his death, including his personal assistant.

“The investigation revealed the existence of an extensive criminal underground network responsible for distributing large quantities of ketamine to Mr. Perry and others.”reported in a press release Martin EstradaU.S. Attorney for the Central District of California.

According to Estrada, the network included his “direct assistants, several middlemen, two doctors and a man named Jasmine Sanghaknown as the “Queen of Ketamine”.

Authorities reported that Perry obtained the life-ending ketamine from Sangha, and the syringe was provided by a doctor. Salvador Plasencia Who is his personal assistant? Kenneth IwamasaHe injected him with the drug on October 28, the day the actor died.

Plasencia and Sanga were arrested Thursday in Southern California.

The prosecutor added that the defendants used Perry’s “addiction issues” to exploit him and “get rich.”

So far, three people have pleaded guilty, including Iwamasa, who admitted injecting the actor with drugs; Mark Chavezwho claimed he sold ketamine to Plasencia; and Eric FlemingAn acquaintance of the actor said he got ketamine from Sangha.

Perry died at home in 2017 Los Angeles An autopsy revealed this was due to the effects of “high levels of ketamine” found in postmortem blood samples, in addition to “drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine”.

May, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Announces joint criminal investigation into actor’s death ‘Friends’.

Translator famous for his character Chandler Bingtalked about how difficult it was to deal with addiction in his memoir Friends, Lovers, and Big Terrible Things: A Memoir (2022). Effie (I)