“He feels incredible remorse for what happened in this case. At the end of the day, someone died. He feels terrible,” Dr.
Mark Chavez’s lawyer, Matthew Binninger, tells Rolling Stone Matthew Perry Christopher Polk/CBS/Getty Images A California doctor charged with supplying admittedly “dangerous” amounts of liquid to without proper medical monitoring pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in the actor’s last year. Dr. Mark Chavez appeared in a federal courtroom in downtown Los Angeles and entered the plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute the dissociative anesthetic after stating through his lawyer in August that Chavez, 54, was with illegally distributing ketamine to Perry before the sitcom star was found floating face-down in his hot tub on Oct.
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District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett accepted the plea as “voluntarily and intelligently made” and scheduled Chavez’s sentencing for April 2, 2025. As part of his deal with prosecutors, Chavez has agreed to cooperate with investigators as they prepare for a March 2025 trial against Dr. Salvador Plasencia and alleged “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha.
Plasencia and Sangha were arrested in August and have pleaded not guilty to related charges. At a press conference, U.S.
Attorney E. Martin Estrada described Plasencia and Sangha as “the two lead defendants in this case.” Chavez, meanwhile, will remain free on $50,000 bail pending his sentencing, the judge ruled Wednesday.
He’s facing a poss.
