Assistant who injected Matthew Perry with ketamine to be sentenced

The personal assistant who injected Matthew Perry with ketamine several times with no medical training, including on the day the Friends actor was found dead in a hot tub at his Los Angeles residence, will be sentenced on Wednesday. Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, pleaded guilty to distributing ketamine that resulted in death or serious bodily injury. Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of three years and five months. Iwamasa’s sentencing will cap the criminal investigation into the five individuals authorities say played a role in Perry’s overdose death in 2023. The lengthiest sentences were handed down to Jasveen Sangha , a drug dealer dubbed the “Ketamine queen” for her prolific criminal enterprise, who supplied the fatal dose, and Perry’s acquaintance, Erik Fleming, the drug addiction counselor who served as a middleman in the sale. Sangha is set to serve 15 years in prison while Fleming is expected to spend two years behind bars. Salvador Plasencia, a former doctor, who continued to supply Iwamasa with ketamine after Perry had an adverse reaction – over two weeks before his death – which left him mute and immobile, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Another doctor, Mark Chavez, who sold ketamine to Perry, will not face prison time. Chavez was sentenced in December to eight months of home detention and three years of supervised release. …