A California doctor was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Wednesday for illegally supplying Matthew Perry with ketamine, the powerful sedative that caused the actor's drug overdose death in 2023.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who operated an urgent-care clinic outside Los Angeles, pleaded guilty in federal court in July to four felony counts of illegal distribution of the prescription anesthetic. He could have faced up to 40 years in prison had he been convicted at trial.

Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett to sentence Plasencia, 44, to three years in prison after a plea agreement where the doctor admitted to illegally selling Perry large amounts of ketamine.

He was not accused of selling the Friends sitcom star the dose that investigators say kille

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