Dr Salvador Plasencia, who admitted four counts of distribution of ketamine in the weeks before Perry\u2019s death, was last year ordered to serve 30 months in jail. <\/p>\n
Another doctor, Mark Chavez, was ordered to be confined at home and told to do hundreds of hours of community service.<\/p>\n
Plasencia bought ketamine off Chavez and sold it to the American-Canadian actor at hugely inflated prices.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wonder how much this moron will pay,\u201d Plasencia wrote in one text message.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Perry was paying more than US$2000 ($3400) per vial of ketamine; his dealers paid a fraction of that.<\/p>\n
Sangha worked with a middleman, Erik Fleming, to sell 51 vials of ketamine to Perry\u2019s live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa.<\/p>\n
Iwamasa repeatedly injected Perry with the ketamine that Sangha had supplied, including on October 28, 2023, when he administered at least three shots of drugs, which killed the actor.<\/p>\n
When Sangha heard news reports about Perry\u2019s sudden death, she tried to cover her tracks.<\/p>\n
\u201cDelete all our messages,\u201d she instructed Fleming.<\/p>\n
When investigators raided Sangha\u2019s home in North Hollywood, they found methamphetamine, ketamine, ecstasy, cocaine and counterfeit Xanax pills, as well as a money-counting machine, a scale and devices to detect wireless signals and hidden cameras.<\/p>\n
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