Overview

• Dr. Salvador Plasencia has agreed to plead guilty to four federal counts of illegal ketamine distribution and faces a maximum 40-year prison term under his plea agreement.
• Court filings reveal Plasencia supplied Perry with about 20 vials of ketamine plus lozenges and syringes, personally injected the actor and trained his assistant to administer the drug.
• Plasencia admitted coordinating with Dr. Mark Chavez to acquire bulk ketamine from a San Diego clinic and then selling it to Perry at steep markups.
• Three co-defendants — Dr. Mark Chavez, Perry’s assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and acquaintance Erik Fleming — have already pleaded guilty; Jasveen Sangha remains the only defendant headed to trial.
• Prosecutors contend that medical professionals and dealers exploited Perry’s off-label ketamine treatment and addiction for profit, contributing to the actor’s fatal overdose.