LOS ANGELES.- Jasveen Sangha, known as the Queen of Ketamine, will appear this Wednesday before a court in Los Angeles, California (USA), to receive her sentence as the main defendant in the death of the star of Friends Matthew Perryin October 2023.
The Queen of Ketamine faces a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison for the charge of storing drugs in her home, another of up to ten years in prison for each count of distribution of ketamine and a further sentence of up to 15 years in prison for the distribution of this drug resulting in death.
In an agreement with Los Angeles authorities, Sangha, 42, pleaded guilty on August 18 to five charges for the distribution of the drug that killed the American actor on October 28, 2023: three for distribution of ketamine, one for distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury, and another for storing and packaging drugs in his home in Los Angeles.
The sentence against Sangha will be the second of the five accused in the death of the star of Friends, following the 30-month prison sentence imposed on Salvador Plasencia, the doctor who pleaded guilty to providing ketamine to Perry.
Perry’s death
The authorities reported that Perry obtained the ketamine that ended his life from Sangha, that the syringe was provided by Plasencia and that Kenneth Iwamasa, as a personal assistant, injected the drug into the actor on the day of his death, October 28, 2023, while the other two defendants, Mark Chavez and Erik Fleming, were part of the scheme.
In their indictment, federal prosecutors asserted that the five involved took advantage of Perry’s addiction problems to obtain financial gain from the star of Friends.
The interpreter, celebrated for his character Chandler Bing, had spoken publicly about his struggle with addictions in his memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir (2022).
