Salvador Plasencia , the doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before his overdose death in 2023, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prison.

Plasencia apologized to Perry’s family before the sentence was read in a Los Angeles federal court, admitting he had violated his oath to care for the actor.

“I failed Mr. Perry. I failed his family,” he said. “I should have protected him.”

Plasencia pleaded guilty in July to four counts of ketamine distribution, though he did not provide the fatal dose. He was handcuffed and taken into custody by federal marshals.

Prosecutors had asked for three years in prison, while the defense asked that he be sentenced to probation. Before issuing her sentence, Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett rejected a defense argument that

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