A federal judge in Los Angeles has sentenced Dr Salvador Plasencia to two and a half years in prison for illegally supplying ketamine to Friends actor Matthew Perry in the weeks before his death. The ruling was delivered on Wednesday by Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, who also ordered two years of probation. Plasencia was taken into custody immediately after the hearing.

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During the sentencing, Judge Garnett said that although Plasencia had not supplied the lethal dose of ketamine that caused Perry’s death, his actions contributed to the actor’s decline. “You and others helped Mr Perry on the road to such an ending by continuing to feed his ketamine addiction," she said.

The judge added that Plasencia had “exploited Perry’s addiction for your own profit," quoting evi

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