‘Ketamine Queen’ pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Friends star Matthew Perry
A woman branded the “Queen of Ketamine”, and she was found guilty of selling drugs that killed her on Wednesday.
Jasveen Sangha was found guilty of five federal accusations, including providing ketamine that led to Perry’s death.
The hearing was planned to begin later this month. The fifth and last defendant accused of Perry’s overdose death to accept guilt.
Perry’s mother Suzanne Perry and her step -father Dateline reporter Keith Morrison sat on the audience. For the first time since the announcement of the indictments a year ago, they participated in court proceedings.
Sangha, who wears prison clothes, stood in court with his lawyer Mark Geragos on Wednesday for repeating the “criminal” of the US Regional Court judge Sherilyn Barış Garnett.
Before that, “Yes, your honor,” he answered dozens of procedures, answered the question, the judge, the defendant and the intermediary Erik Flemeing when he asked if he knows the drugs he is a bit protected.
“There was no way to explain 100%,” he said. Later, I didn’t know if a similar question about the ketamine bottles he gave to Fleming, whether all or some of them were connected to Perry. Comments did not affect the defense agreement.
The prosecutors used Sangha, a 42 -year -old bilateral citizen of the United States and the UK, as a productive drug dealer known as the “Queen of Ketamine” by their customers, often using this term in press releases and court documents.
Sangha, who made a good thing in an agreement he signed on August 18, was found guilty of a drug -related facility, three ketamine distribution and death distribution resulting in death.
“He feels terrible about all this. He said. “He feels terrible and felt terrible since the first day.”
Sangha confessed to selling drugs directly to Cody Mclaury, a 33 -year -old Cody McLery, who died of an overdose in 2019. Mr. McLury had no connection with Perry.
The prosecutors agreed to quit three more numbers about ketamine distribution and to further reduce the distribution of methamphetamine that was not related to the Perry case.
Other customers Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Menendez Brothers, including Mr. Geragos, said the agreement was reached to the judge after “a solid back and forth with the government”.
The last Defense Agreement came a year after Federal prosecutors announced that five people were accused after a comprehensive investigation of Perry’s death on October 28, 2023.
A judge will plan a penalty for Sangha. It can be sentenced to imprisonment of up to 65 years.
The judge does not have to follow any term of the defense agreement, but the prosecutors said they would ask for less than the maximum in the document. None of the defendants have yet been convicted.
Sangha and Dr Salvador placencia, who claimed to be guilty in July, were the main objectives of the investigation.
The other three defendants: Dr Mark Chavez, Kenneth Iwamasa; and plum Fleming; He was found guilty in exchange for cooperation including expressions affecting Sangha and placencia.
Perry was found dead in Los Angeles house by his assistant Iwamasa.
The medical examination specialist, typically used as a surgical anesthetic, decided that ketamine was the primary cause of death.
