Aug. 19, 2024

Investigation Into The Death Of Matthew Perry

Investigation Into The Death Of Matthew Perry

In this episode of Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite, Jim Chapman covers the investigation into the tragic death of actor Matthew Perry, after the arrest of (5) individuals including (2) doctors suspected of being culpable in his death.

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Season 1

In this episode of Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite, Jim Chapman covers the investigation into the tragic death of actor Matthew Perry, after the arrest of (5) individuals including (2) doctors suspected of being culpable in his death.

Jim explores the circumstances surrounding Matthew Perry’s passing at 54 and his battle with addiction. Jim unveils the details of the drug network that exploited Perry's vulnerabilities, discuss the dangers of ketamine misuse, and examine the alarming ethical failings within the medical community. This compelling discussion highlights the broader implications of addiction in society and sets the stage for our next episode, which will further dissect the individuals involved and their role in this heartbreaking saga.

#MatthewPerry#friends #investigation #ketamine #podcast #exposed


Legal Note: This Case has not been adjudicated and all persons discussed in this podcast are assumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The criminal or civil charges expressed in this podcast are taken from public record.

Timestamps
00:18 Introduction to Matthew Perry's Tragic Story
43:15 Law Enforcement Actions and Indictments
54:46 Press Conference on the Case 57:19 The Role of Doctors and Traffickers

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Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.

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I'm your host, Jim Chapman, And just quickly, before we

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get into today's episode, I want to thank all of

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the patrons that have supported the show really since the beginning.

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I can't thank you enough. The show could not exist

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without you. It's just that simple. If you can't be

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a patron, totally get it, totally understand. Please just share

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the show. That's a great way to support and I

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love and appreciate you regardless. And as I like to do,

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I'm going to jump right into it today. And I

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actually dropped a breaking news bonus I call those when

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it was announced that some folks had been arrested five

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people actually, including two doctors, in the death of Matthew Perry.

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And of course, Matthew Perry was a star on the show.

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Friends absolutely loved that show. I was around nineteen when

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that show came out, and it was the perfect time

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for a show like that to hit for a guy

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in his youth at that time, like myself. But what

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a lot of us didn't know at that time, and

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what would come out many years later, was his struggle

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with substance abuse. He really thought that hard it man,

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that monkey was on his back, and he went public

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with it, wrote a book about it just a few

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years ago that was a New York Times bestseller. So

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I've got a lot to cover. Not quite sure how

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many parts this series is going to be, but i

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want to start out kind of at the beginning of

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this saga, and that is when Matthew Perry was actually

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found dead at fifty four years old in his hot

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tub at his home in Los Angeles. And I'm going

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to read a quick article for you that was released

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the day after and it kind of give you an

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idea of what police had to go on at that point,

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and we'll talk about it. Friend, Star Matthew Perry was

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found dead Saturday in a hot tub at his Los

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Angeles home. This from law enforcement sources. He was fifty

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four years old. Authorities responded about four pm to his home,

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where he was discovered unresponsive. The sources, who spoke on

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a condition of inimenity because of the investigation was on going,

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did not cite his cause of death. No drugs were

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found on the scene, but a source said prescription medications

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were recovered at the home. LAPD Captain Scott Williams, who

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led the Robbery Homicide division that is investigating Perry's death,

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said the cause of death may not be known for

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some time, but at this point foul play is not suspected.

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The cause of death will be determined by the coroner's office,

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which on Sunday officially deferred its finding until further testing

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is completed. Saturday evening, yellow and black LAPD crime scene

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tape blocked off the entrance to his home, just off

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the Pacific Coast Highway at the crust of a hill

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with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. Shortly after seven pm,

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multiple helicopters whizzed overhead Perry's mother and her husband. Broadcaster

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Keith Morrison, who incidentally, y'all is the popular personality on

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Dateline NBC so he also arrived at the scene and

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declined to comment. An LAPD officer at the scene said

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he had no information in that he did not know

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when it would be forthcoming. There was a dark side

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to the life of one of television's most below funny men.

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However.

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In his twenty twenty two memoir Friends, Lovers and the

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Big Terrible Thing, Perry recounted his lifelong struggle with addiction

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to alcohol and opioids. He wrote that he had his

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first drink at fourteen, but didn't recognize the signs of

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alcoholism until he was twenty one. Since then, he estimated

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he spent more than seven million dollars in efforts to

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get sober, including multiple stints and rehab. His substance abuse

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also led to a number of serious health issues, including

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a five month hospitalization in twenty eighteen following a colon

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rupture that left him with a two percent chance to

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live through the night. And it was fueled, he said,

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by the pressure to land the joke in front of

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a live audience night after night. Nobody wanted to be

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famous more than me, he said. I was convinced it

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was the answer. I was twenty five, it was the

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second year of friends, and eight months into it, I

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realized that American dream is not making me happy, not

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filling the holes in my life. I couldn't get enough attention.

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Fame does not do what you think it's going to do.

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It's all a trick. So that gives you an idea

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of the struggle that Matthew Perry was facing. Seven million dollars, y'all.

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He spent trying to get sober, and to me, that's

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total proof that addiction is a horrible hard thing to beat,

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even when you got money to spend and you have

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all the success that Matthew Perry did. So the police

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investigated hard. And look, this happens all the time to

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people who aren't world wide famous like Matthew Perry was,

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and typically not the whole lot happens. Usually just find

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out the odeed and that it was over with.

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This was a very high profile case and the police

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were under a lot of pressure and they weren't gonna

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let this just lie. And it took a while, but

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just a few days ago they made five arrest and

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let me read this to you. Two doctors and the

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ketamine queen charged in the overdose death of actor Matthew Perry.

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Five people, including two California doctors, a repeated drug dealer

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known as Kennemine Queen, and Matthew Perry's live in personal assistant,

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have been charged in connection with the actor's accidental overdose death. Perry,

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who was fifty four, was found face down in a

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heated end of his pool at his Pacific Palisades home

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on October twenty eighth of twenty twenty three, the La

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County Medical Examiner's Office attributed his death to acute effects

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of kennymine, an anesthetic with psychedelic properties, according to an

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eighteen count superseded indictment. And y'all, I have those indictments

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for all these people, so I'm gonna go over them

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in these episodes, but we'll continue. According to that eighteen

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gown indictment, Jazzvin Sanga, a North Hollywood resident who sold

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kennemine and other drugs, provided Perry's assistant with ketymine that

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ultimately led to the actor's death. The assistant Kenneth Iwamisa,

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and I may be mispronouncing that injected Perry with the

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drug the day he died. This sarrange was provided by

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doctor Salvador Placincia, who had also distributed kennymene to Perry

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and his assistant in the past. Sanga, who's forty one,

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and Placincia, who is forty two, were both arrested Thursday

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in Southern California, and that was this past Thursday from

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this recording. They were both charged with one count of

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conspiracy to distribute ketymine. Sanga, who's a North Hollywood resident,

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also holds dual citizenship in the UK and was charged

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with several other drug related offenses. A lawyer for saying

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it did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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She was arrested in March in connection with a separate

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federal drug case, but was released after posting a one

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hundred thousand dollars bill. Iwa Masa, Perry's fifty nine year

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old assistant, pleaded guilty on August seventh to one count

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of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing a death. He admitted

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to repeatedly injecting Perry with kennemine without medical training, including

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on the day he died. Doctor Mark Chavez, fifty four,

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a physician based in San Diego, has agreed to plead

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guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. He

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admitted to selling ketamine to Placincia, including some that he

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had diverted from his former clinic and the fifth defendant,

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Eric Fleming, who is fifty four, was described in court

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papers as an acquaintance of Perry's who held to obtain

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the ketamine. He admitted to distributing kennemine that killed Perry,

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drugs that he procured from saying. The family of Dateline

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correspondent Keith Morrison, who is Perry's stepfather, said in a

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statement that they welcomed the news of the law enforcement action.

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Lapdes said in May that they were working with federal

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authorities to investigate the source of the kennemine Perry had consumed.

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Ketamine had been a popular party drug for decades, and

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in recent years has shown promise as an alternative treatment

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for depression. A growing number of clinics offered as an

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infusion or injection for a wide variety of mental health problems.

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Parry has been undergoing ketemine infusion therapy to treat depression

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and anxiety, but his last session took place more than

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a week prior to his death. The medical examiner noted

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that the kennemine in Perry's system could not be that

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infusion therapy given its short half life. The levels of

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ketamine and his body were high, equivalent to the amount

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used for general anesthesia during surgery. The corner ultimately ruled

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his death an accident. Contributing factors include drowning, coronary artery disease.

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So that was the breaking news, and before we get

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any further, I want to talk about a couple things. First,

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I want to educate those that may not be aware

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of what ketamine is and for all intents and purposes,

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ketamine is a hallucinogen. It's an anesthetic that has some

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hallucinogenic effects. It distorts the perception of site and sound

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and makes the user feel disconnected and not in control.

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It is referred to as a disassociative anesthetic hallucinogen because

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it makes patients feel detached from their pain and environment.

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Ketamine can induce a state of sedation, in mobility, relief

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from pain, and amnesia, so people will have no memory

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of events while under the influence of the drug, and

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it's abused for its discessiative sensations and hallucinogenic effects. Ketamine

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has also been used to facilitate sexual assault, primarily all

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because if you're under the influence of ketamine, you won't

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remember things that occurred while you were under the influence.

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It is approved as a medical product as an injectable,

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short acting and aesthetic for use in humans and animals,

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and they also have a nasal spray version that is

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used as treatment for depression and on the street. It

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has several different titles Cat Tranquilizer, Cat Volume, jet K,

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KitKat Purple. Primarily people know it as Special K on

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the streets super K, it's known as em Vitamin K.

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And how to people abuse it? They inject it. They

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can also make it into a powder and snort it

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or mix it in drinks, and you can even smoke

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kenemine when it's in its powder form. An overdose of

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ketamine can cause unconsciousness and dangerously slowed breathing. Probably one

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of the biggest side effects of the drug from what

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I understand, is it really slows your breathing down. So

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not a fun drug and definitely not a drug to

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be played with. So we're gonna get into the indictments,

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and the first ones we're going to talk about is

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Jazzvin Sanga, who you heard me refer to as the

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ketamine Queen. And we're also going to talk about Salvador Plasencia,

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who is known as doctor P. And this is the

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actual indictment for those two individuals, and I'm going to

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be going over with you. It was actually released on

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August fourteenth of twenty twenty four, just a few days

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from this recording, and we're going to talk about the

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individual counts and on count one, Defendant Jazviine Sanga, also

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known as the Ketamine Queen, was a resident of North Hollywood, California,

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who used her North Hollywood, California resident known as the

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Sanga Stash House. How about that, to store, package, and

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distribute narcotics, including ketamine and meth amthetamine Defendant number two,

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Salvador plan Sincea, also known as Doctor p and co

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conspirator Mark Chavez were medical doctors licensed to practice in

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the state of California. Defendant Placencia and co conspirator Chavez

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had previously applied for and obtained authorization from the DEA

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to dispense and minister and prescribe narcotics and other controlled substances,

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just so long as the prescriptions were for legitimate medical purposes.

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Ketamine was a Scheduled three controlled substance that was at

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THEA approved for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia during

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surgical procedures. Due to the medical risk associated with ketamine,

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it was widely accepted in the medical community that a

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healthcare professional was required to monitor the patient who had

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been given the ketamine. While monitoring the patient who had

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been administered ketamine, it was necessary for the healthcare professional

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to have access to certain life saving equipment. This includes

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a defibrillator, a supply of supplemental oxygen equipment to monitor

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the patient's heart rate for breathing, and medication to ensure

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the patient's safety.

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Defendit.

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Sanga also knew that the unsupervised and improper use of

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ketamine can be deadly, as alleged in Count three. On

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August twenty six of twenty nineteen, Sanga sold ketamine to

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a customer namely victim CM, and I don't know who

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CM is, folks, but this person died of a drug

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overdase within a day of the drug deal. As a result,

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a family member of victim CM informed Definditt Sanga of

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the death in a text message, saying, the ketamine you

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saw my brother killed him and it's listed as the

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cause of death. Within days of receiving this text, Sanga

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confirmed that the ketamine can kill by conducting a Google

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search for and get this, y'all? Can kettymine be listed

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as the cause of death? Co conspirator in the Matthew

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Perry case, kenneth Iawa Masa was a resident of La

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County and employed as the live in personal assistant to

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the victim, Matthew Perry. Co conspirator Iwa Masa had never

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received medical training and knew little, if anything about administering

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and treating patients with controlled substances, as defendant Placeinsea well knew,

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and remember, y'all, Placincea was a doctor. Co conspirator Eric

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Fleming was an acquaintance of victim Matthew Perry in a resident.

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Of Hawthorne, California.

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Defendant Placencia, co conspirator Iwa Masa, co conspirator Fleming, and

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co conspirator Shavez were aware that Matthew Perry had a

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history of drug abuse and addiction, and that Matthew Perry

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had also sought, on multiple occasions assistants to treat that

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drug addiction and maintain his sobriety. So what they're doing there, folks,

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is they are laying it out.

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They're laying out.

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Who these people are, and they're laying out that they

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well knew that Matthew Perry had an addiction problem, and

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that's important. And then they go into the what they

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call the object of the conspiracy, and a conspiracy, y'all,

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is when two or more people plan or conspire against

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another individual in an illegal way, something that they know

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they're not supposed to be doing, but they're doing anyway,

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And it's important to proved that there was a conspiracy here.

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So they say, beginning on a date unknown and continuing

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until least on or about October thirtieth of twenty twenty

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three in La County within the Central District of California

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and elsewhere, defendants Placincia and Sanga conspired with Iowa Masa, Fleming,

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and Chavez and others known and unknown to the grand

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jury to knowingly and intentionally distribute ketamine, a Schedule three

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controlled substance. Then they go into the manor and means

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of the conspiracy and they say the object of a

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conspiracy was to be accomplished in substance. As follows, co

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conspirator Iowa Masa would communicate with other co conspirators, including

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defendants Placincia and co conspirator Fleming, about purchasing ketamine to

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distribute to Matthew Perry. The co conspirators would use encryptive

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messaging applications in coded language to discuss the drug deals,

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including referring to bottles of ketamine as Doctor Pepper Cans

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and bots Bots. After discussing ketamine orders with co conspirator

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Iwa Masa, co conspirator Fleming, and defendant Placin Sea would

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communicate with their kenymine sources of supply, including Sanga and Chavez, respectively,

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about inventory, price and availability of kennemine to sell. Iwa

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Masa and Matthew Parry. Sanga would operate and maintain the

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Sanga Stash House in North Hollywood, California, which defendant Sanga

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would use to store, package, and distribute narcotics, including providing

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ketamine to co conspirator Fleming so that co conspirator Fleming

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could sell it to Matthew Perry. Iowa Masa would meet

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with co conspirators including Placin Sea and Fleming to purchase

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the kenemine for Matthew Perry. Defendant Place and Sea would

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distribute ketymine to co conspirator Iowa Masa and Matthew Perry

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outside the usual course of professional practice and without legitimate

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medical purpose, including by teaching Iowa Massa how to inject

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Matthew Perry with the ketemine, selling ketymine to Iowa Masa

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to inject Matthew Perry and injecting ketamine into Matthew Perry

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without proper safety equipment, and failing to properly monitor Matthew Perry.

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After Placincia injected Matthew Perry with ketemine using the instructions

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and syringes provided by Placincia, Iowa Masa would inject Matthew

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Perry with the ketamine that was sold to Iowa Masa

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by Placincia, Fleming and Sanga on October twenty eighth of

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twenty twenty three, using syringes providing this is important, this

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is the day he died, y'all. On October twenty eighth,

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twenty twenty three, using syringes provided by Placincia, Iowa Massa

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injected Matthew Perry with multiple basis of the ketamine he

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received from Fleming and Sanga, resulting in the death and

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serious bodily injury of Matthew Perry. That's murder, y'all, they're

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saying right there, he murdered Matthew Perry. They investigated this

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case and they came up with some examples of how

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they tied this all in, they say. On September thirtieth

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of twenty twenty three, After learning that Matthew Perry was

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interested in obtaining ketamine, Place and Sead contacted Chavez about

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purchasing ketamine so he could sell the ketamine to Matthew Perry.

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On September thirtieth of twenty twenty three, in text messages

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with Chavez, plat and Sea had discussed how much to

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charge Matthew Perry for ketamine, saying I wonder how much

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this moron will pay. Let's find out then. Also on

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September thirtieth of twenty twenty three, Chavez confirmed he was

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willing to sell ketemine to Plasin Sea and then send

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a photograph of ketamine lounges that Chaves have previously attained

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by writing a fraudulent prescription in the name of VB

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without vb's knowledge or consent, and we don't know what

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VB stands for with somebody. Also on September thirtieth of

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twenty twenty three, in text messages, Chavez and placin Sea

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arranged to meet in Kosa Mesa, California, so that the

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defendant placin Sea could obtain liquid ketamine and the fraudulent

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VB prescription from Chavez Also on that same day, Chavez

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met with Plasina in or around Costa Messa, California, and

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sold plass and See at least four bials of liquid ketamine, ketemine,

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lounges from the fraudulent VB prescription gloves, and syringes. Also

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on the same day, in text messages to Matthew Perry,

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plas and Sea confirmed that he planned to leave vials

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of ketamine with Matthew Perry for self administration, stating, I

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will give you the first dose if you would like,

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and then leave supplies with you. Also on that same day,

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after injecting Matthew Perry with ketamine at Matthew Perry's residence,

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place and Sea gave instructions to Iowa Masa on how

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to inject ketamine and left ketamine and syringes with Iowa

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Masa so that Iowa Massa could administer ketemine to Matthew Perry.

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Same day, Iowa Massa paid Platin Sea approximately forty five

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hundred dollars in cash for the ketamine. Same day, plat

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and Sea sent text messages to co conspiratory Chavez describing

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the meeting with Matthew Perry, stating it was like a

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bad movie, and confirming that Platinia would send show payment soon. Then,

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on October second of twenty twenty three, Awa Masa sent

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Placincia a text message in cutted language stating that Awa

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Masa wanted to purchase vials of ketymine and non injectible sessions.

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Want to end up with eight bottles of doctor pepper,

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not just eight sessions. Same day, in response to the

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text message, Place and Sea had confirmed with the words understood.

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That same day, ahead of a planned meeting between Plat

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and C and Matthew Perry, Plat and Se had told Chavez,

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if today goes well, we may have repeat business. Same day,

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in a text message to Place and Sea, Chavez discussed

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selling ketemine to Matthew Perry, saying you should sell him

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the troaches. He was referring to the fraudulent VB prescription.

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Same day, defendant Place and Sead traveled to Matthew Perry's

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residence to inject him with catamine and sell additional ketamine,

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including ketemine longes. Same day, Place and Sea updated Chavez

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about his visit to Matthew Perry's residence, including stating he

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intended to administer three hundred and sixty milligrams of ketemine

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to Matthew Perry over a span of approximately one hour.

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On that same day, Place and Sea injected Matthew Perry

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with the ketamine and sold Awa Masa liquid ketymine and

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kenemine longes from the fraudulent VB prescription in exchange for cash.

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And on that same day, in text messages with Chavez,

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Plass and Sea discussed needing additional ketamine to sell Matthew Perry.

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Also on October two, to obtain more ketamine to sell

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Matthew Perry, Chavez placed in order for ten miles of

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kennemine from a whole sale distributor of controlled substances. Also

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on that day, Chavez submitted a license authorization form to

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a different whole sell distributor of controlled substances for the

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purpose of obtaining additional ketamine to sell to Matthew Perry.

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Among other things, the license authorization form contained false statements,

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including that the ketamine will not be sold to a

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third party, distributed, or used for any other purpose. Then,

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on October fourth, in text messages using coded language, Iowa

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Masa told Plassin Sea he needed to purchase additional bottles

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of ketamine, stating I will need to get more cans

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of doctor pepper from you today. I can come to

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you and make it convenient. That same day, Iowa Masa

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told Platincia he had successfully injected Matthew Perry with ketamine,

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noting found the sweet spot, but trying different places led

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to running out of kenemine holy smokes. That same day,

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and in response to the text message, Plass and Sea

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advised he could deliver more ketamine to Iowa and said

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I don't have ideas on how to get consistent results.

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That same day, in response to Iwamasa's text message requesting

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the purchase ketamine now, Plas and Seas stated he was

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currently retrieving four bottles from his source and his sorece

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y'all he was referring to with Chavez. That same day,

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Place and Sea traveled to Irvine, California to purchase eight

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vals of liquid ketamine from Chavez. That same day, Plas

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and Sea injected Matthew Perry with ketamine and sold multiple

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vials of ketemine to Iwamasa. That same day. In text

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messages to co conspirators Chavez, Plasincia asked whether co conspirator

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Chavez was having any trouble finding more ketamine in case

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this continues with this guy, noting, I think we would

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be best served not having him look elsewhere because Plasinca

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wanted to be his quote unquote go to. Also, on

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October fourth, twenty twenty three, Chavez sent a text message

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to Place and Seas stating he was working on getting

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more ketemine. Also, on October fourth, to obtain more kennemine

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to sell Matthew Perry, Chavez submitted an order for ten

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bals of kennemine to a wholesale ketamine distributor. Also that

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same day, to obtain more ketamine to sell Matthew Perry,

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Chavez completed a Know Your Customer DEA questionnaire and submitted

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it to a distributor, knowing the document contained material that

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was false, including Chavez responding no to the question do

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you sell any products to other practitioners. Then, on October

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six of twenty twenty three, in response to co conspirator

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Iowa Massa's advising defendant Place and Sea that he needed

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more kennemine because he only had one left, Plas and

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Sea traveled to Matthew Perry's residence and sold one or

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more vials of ketemine to Iowa Masa in exchange for cash. Then,

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on October seventh of twenty twenty three, Iowa Masa sent

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text messages to Plasin Seas seeking more ketamine and asked

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if he could pay with something besides cash, because it's

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getting hard to get to the bank on the fly

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with all that's going on and everything happening so fast.

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Now.

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On October seventh of twenty twenty three, at approximately eleven

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twenty nine pm, and in response to text messages from

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Iowa Masa, Plas and Sea confirmed he had two bottles

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of ketamine to sell and agreed to meet in Santa Monica, California,

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stating I'm at Third Street Promenade now if you would

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like to meet now. On October seventh of twenty twenty three,

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at eleven forty seven pm, co conspirator Iowa Masa told

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Plasincia that he sent three thousand dollars by electric pain

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and I'm bringing three more leaving now. Then on October eighth,

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at twelve thirty am, really the same night, y'all. Plass

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And sum met with co conspirator Iowa Masa on the

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street corner in Santa Monica and sold co conspirator Iowa

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Masa ketemine in exchange for six.

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Thousand dollars Wow.

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On October ninth of twenty twenty three, after Chavez received

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the ketymine delivery from a wholesale distributor, Chavez sent text

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messages to Place and Seas stating are we still meaning tomorrow?

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We got the shipment today one box of ten biles.

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Same day.

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In response to that text, Place and See has stated great, Yes,

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I'm going to probably come to you midday. The following day,

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October tenth of twenty twenty three, Plass and Cum met

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with Chavez in Irvine, California and purchased ten bials of kenemine,

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which Plass and Sea intended to sell to Matthew Perry.

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That same day, in text messages, Placin Sea and Iowa

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Masa agreed to meet in Long Beach, California, so that

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defendant Place and Sea could transfer more ketamine to Iowa Masa.

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That same day, Place and Sea met with Iowa Masa

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and Matthew Perry in a public parking lot in Long Beach, California,

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where Placincea injected Matthew Perry with ketamine while inside of

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a vehicle. While there, Place and Sea also provided additional

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vals of ketymine to Iowa Masa in exchange for partial.

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Payment in cash.

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Then, on October twelfth of twenty twenty three, in text messages,

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Iowa Masa asked to purchase more ketamine from Placincea and

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netted he would pay Place and Sea the money he

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owed for ketemine that Place and Sea already provided. Same day,

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Place and Sea traveled to Matthew Perry's residence in La

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County to sell additional ketamine to Iowa Masa and matth HTHEW. Perry,

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for which Iowa Maso paid defendant Place and Sea approximately

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you ready for this twenty one thousand, five hundred dollars

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in cash. On October twelfth of twenty twenty three, after

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defendant Place and Sea injected Matthew Perry with a large

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jase of ketamine that caused Matthew Perry to freeze up

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and his blood pressure to significantly spike, Plat and Sea

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told Iowa Masa something to the effect of let's not

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do that again, and nonetheless left additional vials of ketamine

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with Iowa masa for injecting Matthew Perry. On October thirteenth

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of twenty twenty three, in response to a text message

455
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:50.839
from Place and Sea asking if Chavez will be interested

456
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:55.319
in running a ketamine clinic with him, Chavez said interesting,

457
00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:58.640
and as long as we are doing things on the

458
00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:02.880
oven up, we can start asap, all done legally without

459
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.559
any shady stuff. Having them come to the clinic will ensure.

460
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:11.440
This same day, in response to defendant Placincea asking oh,

461
00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:14.440
so you don't agree with the method I am currently doing,

462
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:19.160
Chavez stated, it's not what I think, it's what an

463
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:21.799
entity like the California Medical.

464
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:25.240
Board will view it, or the DEA from that matter.

465
00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:29.160
Then, eleven days later, October twenty fourth of twenty twenty three,

466
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:32.880
despite less than a week earlier, telling a patient at

467
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:35.519
his clinic that Matthew Perry was too far gone and

468
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:40.279
spiraling in his addiction, plas and Sea placed an order

469
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:44.920
for ten vials of ketemine from a wholesale distributor, said

470
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:47.960
that Plasin Sea could offer to sell the ketemine to

471
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:52.079
Matthew Perry. Then, on October twenty seventh, twenty twenty three,

472
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:56.119
in text messages, Place and Sea offered to sell additional

473
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:59.839
ketamine to Iowa Masa, stating, I know you mentioned taking

474
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:03.759
a break. I have been stocking up in the meantime.

475
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:06.720
I am not sure when you guys plan to resume,

476
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.559
but in case it's when I'm out of town this weekend.

477
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:12.640
I have left supplies with a nurse of mine, and

478
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.079
I can always let her know the plan. I'll be

479
00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:18.519
back in town on Tuesday.

480
00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:19.400
So y'all.

481
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:24.440
A lot of that particular section of the indictment covers

482
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:27.680
doctor Plas Sincia, and now we're going to get into

483
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:31.039
more of Sanga. So we'll back up a little bit

484
00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:33.720
and we're going to go to October tenth. I Will

485
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:38.359
Massa sends a text message to co conspirator Fleming seeking

486
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:41.400
to purchase ketamine, stating how much do you want per bottle?

487
00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:45.200
And what is the nice tip that you want same day?

488
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:49.240
In response to the text, co conspirator Fleming stated perfect,

489
00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:52.200
I'll bring it to you, getting priced now. I need

490
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.000
some upfront to pay when I pick up and the

491
00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:59.240
rest when I deliver same day. Using a signal encryptive

492
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:06.319
messaging application, Fleming stated with Sanga about obtaining ketamine, saying hi,

493
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:11.280
Jas it's Eric. Let me know your address. How many

494
00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:16.039
vials do you have available? Then, using that same encrypted

495
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:21.000
messaging application, Fleming and Sanga communicated about the type and

496
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:24.960
price of the ketamine that Sanga had available to sell.

497
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:29.159
That same day, Fleming told Iowa Masa that he could

498
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.320
obtain vials of ketamine for three hundred dollars and sent

499
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:36.280
a photograph of ketamine he proposed selling and requested a

500
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:40.000
one thousand dollars brokering fee. On October eleventh of twenty

501
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:44.719
twenty three, using that encryptive messaging application, Sanga told Fleming

502
00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:48.480
that her ketamine was high quality and offered a sample

503
00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:52.400
of the drug for Matthew Perry to try, stating it's unmarked,

504
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:56.320
but it's amazing. He take one and try it, and

505
00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:59.480
I have more if he likes. On October eleventh, Fleming

506
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:03.639
centis screenshot of Sanga's message that I just told you

507
00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:06.320
about and stated I just got this from my person.

508
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:10.360
She only deals with high end and celebs. If it

509
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.599
were not great stuff, she'd lose her business. Also in

510
00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:17.960
October twelfth, Fleming contacted Sanga to obtain a sample vial

511
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:22.320
of ketamine and advise Sanga that the ketamine was intended

512
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:26.800
for Matthew Perry. Also on October twelfth, after communicating with

513
00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:31.440
Sanga about her ketamine supply, Fleming advised Iwa Masa that

514
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:36.159
is hookup, meaning Sanga was able to get the kind

515
00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:41.000
that is used for inter muscular I guarantee it's going

516
00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:44.599
to be amazing and send a photograph of an unlabeled, unmarked,

517
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:47.519
clear glass vial of ketamine.

518
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:50.119
To show Iowa Masa what they looked like.

519
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:53.920
On October twelfth of twenty twenty three, Fleming told Iowa

520
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.840
Masa that he was willing to facilitate the drug deal,

521
00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:59.559
but needed to make money, stating I wouldn't do this

522
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:01.960
if there there wasn't a chance of me making some

523
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:06.599
money for doing it. On October thirteenth, Fleming drove to

524
00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:10.760
the Sega stash house in North Hollywood, California, and purchased

525
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.519
a ketamine sample for Matthew Perry, which was contained inside

526
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.119
an unlabeled, unmarked clear glass vial with a blue cap.

527
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.360
On October thirteenth of twenty twenty three, Fleming drove to

528
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:26.559
Matthew Perry's residence and delivered the sample ketamine vial to

529
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:31.000
Iowa Masa, knowing that Iowa Massa would be injected Matthew

530
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:35.159
Perry with the ketamine. On October thirteenth, Fleming told Iowa

531
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:39.039
Masa he could obtain, however many bals of ketamine as

532
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:42.400
Iowa Masa requested, stating, let me know how many and

533
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.480
I'll confirm what she can get, but as of now,

534
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.320
she said she can fill any size order. On October thirteenth,

535
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:53.280
twenty twenty three, in response to text messages, Iowa Masa

536
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.599
told Fleming he would purchase twenty five bals for five

537
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.840
thy five hundred dollars plus five hundred dollars for you

538
00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:06.840
for logistics. On October fourteenth, twenty twenty three, Fleming drove

539
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:10.599
to Matthew Perry's residence located in La County and collected

540
00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:14.480
cash from Iowa Masa. On October fourteenth of twenty twenty three,

541
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:18.280
Fleming drove to the Singing Stash House and purchased twenty

542
00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:22.199
five dollars of ketamine from Sana. That same day, after

543
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:26.639
attaining the ketamine, Fleming drove back to Matthew Perry's residence

544
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:30.840
located in La County and delivered the ketymene to Iowa Masa.

545
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:35.079
Iowa Masa then sent a text message on October twenty

546
00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:38.280
third of twenty twenty three to Fleming requesting to purchase

547
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:42.039
more ketamine, stating, can we do same as last time

548
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:46.559
again over next two days. On October twenty third of

549
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:49.880
twenty twenty three, in response to the text message, Fleming

550
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:52.920
confirmed he could obtain more ketamine, stating it will be

551
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:55.920
the same product you want the same amount. Put the

552
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:59.639
fifty five hundred together, sap, and I'll come get it

553
00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:02.320
as ciny is possible to get it all done tonight.

554
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:06.440
On October twenty third of twenty twenty three, Fleming traveled

555
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:10.119
to Matthew Perry's residence and picked up approximately six thousand

556
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.079
dollars in cash from Iowa Masa, which would be used

557
00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:17.400
to pay defendant Sanga for additional ketemine. On October twenty

558
00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:20.440
fourth of twenty twenty three, based on information from Sanga,

559
00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:25.039
Fleming sent text message updates to co conspirator Iowa Masa

560
00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:28.960
about the delivery and timing of the ketemene, including stating

561
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:33.920
that defendant Sanga's ketamine source, which Defendant Sanger referred to

562
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:38.760
get ready for this as master Chef and scientists would

563
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:41.880
make the supply available and that the ketamine was on

564
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:46.199
its way to our girl, referring to defendant Sanga. On

565
00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:49.960
October twenty fourth of twenty twenty three, Fleming traveled to

566
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:53.519
the Sanga stash house purchased twenty five vials of kenemine

567
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.559
from Sana in exchange for cash. As part of the transaction,

568
00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:02.519
Sanga included ketemine Lawley as an ada one for Matthew

569
00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:04.360
Perry's large kenemine order.

570
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:05.639
How nice of her.

571
00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:09.639
On October twenty fourth of twenty twenty three, Fleming traveled

572
00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:13.920
to Matthew Perry's residence with the kenemine reference and delivered

573
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:18.719
to Iowa Masa. Same day, Iowa Massa administered at least

574
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:22.800
six shots of ketymine to Matthew Perry.

575
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:25.639
Jesus, this is so sad, y'all.

576
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:30.199
Sanger reached out to Fleming on October twenty fifth. The

577
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:35.920
next day about anticipating future transfers of ketemine to Matthew Perry, stating,

578
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:38.800
please let me know if you think there'll be another round,

579
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:42.639
because the scientist he'll be gone as well. I'll have

580
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:44.800
to know ahead of time to get that sorted out

581
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:49.119
before we leave. Same day, Iowa Massa administered at least

582
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:56.679
six shots to Matthew Perry. The next day he just delivered.

583
00:39:56.719 --> 00:40:00.239
On the twenty fourth, y'all six shots of kenemine to

584
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.119
Matthew Perry delivered, meaning he injected him with it the

585
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.639
next day another six shots. On October twenty seventh, twenty

586
00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:11.559
twenty three, Iwa Masa administered at least six shots of

587
00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:15.159
ketamine to Matthew Perry. On October twenty eighth of twenty

588
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:20.199
twenty three, using syringes provided by Placincia, Iowa Masa injected

589
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.679
Matthew Perry with at least three shots of ketamine, which

590
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:31.239
resulted in the death and serious bodily injury of Matthew Parry.

591
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:34.880
On October twenty eighth of twenty twenty three, after she

592
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:39.159
learned about Matthew Perry's death from the News, defendant Sanga

593
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:43.480
called fleming using the signal application that encrypted app to

594
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:48.440
discuss distancing themselves from selling kennymine to Matthew Perry by,

595
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:53.440
among other things, deleting the digital evidence on their cell phones.

596
00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:56.519
So may maybe they were fucked at that point. On

597
00:40:56.559 --> 00:41:00.400
October twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, Sanga updated the setting

598
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:04.320
on the signal application to automatically delete our messages with

599
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.679
Fleming and instructive Fleming to delete.

600
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:08.400
All of our messages.

601
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:14.559
On October thirtieth of twenty twenty three, using that messaging application,

602
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:19.239
Fleming sent the following text message to defendant Sanga please

603
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.239
call got more info and want to bounce ideas off you.

604
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:26.920
I'm ninety percent sure everyone is protected. I've never dealt

605
00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:32.360
with Matthew Perry Only's assistant, so the assistant was the enabler. Also,

606
00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:36.960
they're doing a three month talks screening. Does case stay

607
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:40.000
in your system or is it automatically flushed out?

608
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:40.559
Y'all?

609
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:45.639
This is awful, sureble This guy was horribly addicted and

610
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:52.679
all these people are culpable in it. And let me

611
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:56.519
just talk about this. I am seeing and I'm enjoying

612
00:41:56.800 --> 00:42:02.039
seeing this, these dealers and these enable of all these drugs,

613
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:05.280
be it the doctors that are over prescribing them, the

614
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:09.159
drug dealers that are selling them. I'm loving the fact

615
00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:12.960
that these people are having to pay the price because

616
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:17.719
this shit that I just read you today happens all

617
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:18.280
the time.

618
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.360
This is horrible.

619
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:26.840
These people are feeding him his candy right, and all

620
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:29.320
they give a fuck about is money and I'm sorry,

621
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.000
but this shit pisces me off, and I'm glad to

622
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:34.480
see these people going down. So I want you to

623
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:38.159
hear the press conference. This is about twenty minutes long.

624
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:41.079
It's the actual press conference that came out on Thursday

625
00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:47.079
with the police that filed this indictment and investigated this case.

626
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:50.880
It's very interesting, and on the next episode, we're going

627
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:56.239
to really get in deep and dirty with the Ketamine Queen.

628
00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:58.119
Who she is, what she's done.

629
00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.440
In the past, and we're also going to get into

630
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:05.800
what culpability Matthew Perry's personal assistant has in his death

631
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:08.599
and what I think about that, and obviously it's a

632
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:11.880
hell of a lot more than him just injecting Matthew Perry.

633
00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:16.239
We'll get into all that in our next episode. But

634
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:18.119
right now, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going

635
00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:22.760
to play that news conference from Thursday in its entirety,

636
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:23.639
and here's that.

637
00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:28.880
Related to the death of the actor Matthew Perry. Following

638
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:33.239
mister Perry's death in October of last year, law enforcement,

639
00:43:33.639 --> 00:43:37.599
my office, and our partners represented on this stage began

640
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:44.119
an in depth, wide ranging investigation. That investigation has revealed

641
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:49.960
a broad underground criminal network responsible for distributing large quantities

642
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:56.639
of ketamine to mister Perry and others. This network included

643
00:43:56.840 --> 00:44:03.079
a living assistant, various go between two medical doctors, and

644
00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:06.920
a major source of drug supply known as quote the

645
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:13.840
Ketamine Queen. We charged five defendants in this matter. These

646
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:19.199
defendants took advantage of mister Perry's addiction issues to enrich themselves.

647
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.480
They knew what they were doing was wrong.

648
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:25.800
They knew what they were doing was risking great danger

649
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:29.480
to mister Perry, but they did it anyways. In the end,

650
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.039
these defendants were more interested in profiting off mister Perry

651
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:38.159
than caring for his well being. I'm going to talk

652
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:42.360
about the indictment, the allegations, and the charges in more detail.

653
00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:46.840
On October twenty eight, twenty twenty three, mister Perry was

654
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:50.960
found de ceased in his home and autopsy was conducted

655
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:54.519
following his death. That autopsy showed that he had died

656
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.039
due to the acute effects of ketamine. Ketamine is a

657
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:03.199
control substance. It has some legitimate uses, but it is

658
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:07.840
also used illegally. It is used by people seeking to

659
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:14.159
disassociate from reality. It can cause serious health effects. Serious

660
00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:20.719
health problems including loss of consciousness, including spikes and blood pressure,

661
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:24.800
and including respiratory issues that can deprive the brain of oxygen.

662
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:28.719
For that reason, it is a drug that must be

663
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:34.320
administered by medical professionals and the patient must be monitored closely.

664
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:36.639
That did not occur here.

665
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:43.679
This investigation focused on who supplied the ketamine to mister Perry.

666
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:47.039
As many of you know, mister Perry struggled with addiction

667
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.840
in the past. Not on many occasions he sought help

668
00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:54.760
for his addiction issues. The investigation revealed in the fall

669
00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:59.079
of twenty twenty three, mister Perry fell back into addiction

670
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:04.400
and these defendants took advantage to profit for themselves. The

671
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:09.079
two lead defendants in this case are defendants Salvador Placentia

672
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:15.639
and defendant Jesseviin Sanya. First, I'll talk about defendant Placentia.

673
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:21.280
Defendant Placentia was a medical doctor. He worked with another

674
00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:27.559
medical doctor, defendant Mark Chavez, to obtain ketemine. He then

675
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:33.000
worked with mister Perry's live in assistant, defendant Kenneth Iwamasa,

676
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:38.920
to distribute that ketamine to mister Perry. Over two months

677
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:44.119
from September to October twenty twenty three, they distributed approximately

678
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:49.000
twenty vials of ketamine to mister Perry in exchange for

679
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:55.320
fifty five thousand dollars in cash. Defendant Placentia saw this

680
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:59.679
as an opportunity to profit off of mister Perry. He

681
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:03.639
wrote in a text message in September twenty twenty three, quote,

682
00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:08.400
I wonder how much this moron will pay. He also

683
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:10.880
stated in text messages that he wanted to be mister

684
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:14.760
Perry's sole source of supply. He wrote in a text

685
00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:18.239
message that he wanted to be mister Perry's quote go

686
00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:19.599
to for drugs.

687
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:21.719
As a doctor.

688
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.639
Defendant Placentia knew full well the danger of what he

689
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:30.159
was doing. In fact, on one occasion, he injected mister

690
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:33.880
Perry with kenmine and he saw mister Perry freeze up

691
00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:38.800
and his blood pressure spike. Despite that, he left additional

692
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vials of ketamine for defendant Iwamasa to administer to mister Perry.

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Of course, defendant Iwamasa had no medical training to speak of.

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Defendant Placentia knew what he was doing was harming mister Perry.

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He had spoken to another patient in mid October twenty

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twenty three, and he told that patient that mister Perry

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was spiraling.

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Out of control with his addiction.

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Nonetheless, defendant Placentia continued to offer ketamine to mister Perry. Likewise,

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Defendant Sonya knew what she was doing was harming defendant

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defendants and also mister Perry. She took advantage of mister

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Perry by selling large amounts of ketymine to mister Perry.

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Over a two week period in October of twenty twenty three,

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she sold approximately fifty vials of ketamine for approximately eleven

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thousand dollars in cash. She worked with a broker, defendant

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00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:45.559
Eric Fleming, and also the live in assistant defendant Iwamasa

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to distribute this ketamine. Sonya and the broker, Defendant Fleming

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00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.920
saw this as an opportunity to profit off of mister Perry,

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and the text message the broker wrote quote, I wouldn't

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do it if there wasn't a chance of me making

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00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:08.199
some money for doing this. Defendant Sonya sold the batch

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of ketamine that resulted in mister Perry's death on October

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00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:19.400
twenty eighth. Officers later searched defendant Sonya's home. During that search,

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they found what amounted to a drug selling emporium. They

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found eighty vials of ketamine, thousands of pills containing methamphetamine, cocaine,

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00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:36.559
bottles of xanax, and other illegally obtained prescription drugs, and

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00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:43.960
drug selling paraphernalia, including scales and ledgers. As I mentioned,

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00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:47.280
the defendants in this case knew what they were doing

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00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:50.639
was wrong. When they'd refer to the ketamine, they use

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00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:53.719
coded language. They'd referred to it using terms such as

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00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:59.880
quote doctor Pepper or quote bots or quote cans. Also,

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Defendant's Placentia and Chavez as medical doctors, knew full well

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this was not the proper way to administer ketamine, and

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they even talked about that in their exchanges, and Defendant

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Sonya also knew that she was doing something that caused

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00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.320
great risk to mister Perry. In fact, during this investigation,

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we learned that several years before, in twenty nineteen, defendant

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Sonya had sold ketamine to another customer. That person died

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00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:35.079
the same day, and a family member of that person

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sent a message to defendant Sonya telling her the cause

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of death was ketamine. Nonetheless, Defendant Sonya continued selling drugs,

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including ketamine, including the ketamine that ultimately killed mister Perry.

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That other victim was a person named Cody mclory.

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He died in twenty nineteen.

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As a result of this investigation, we have filed a

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drug distribution charge related to.

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The death of mister McLaurin.

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After mister Perry died, these defendants tried to cover.

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Up what they had done.

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On October twenty eighth, after reading news reports of mister

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Perry's death, defendant Sonya wrote a text message to defend

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the fleming, saying quote delete all our messages.

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Likewise, after mister.

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Perry's death, defendant Placentia falsified medical records and notes to

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00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:35.599
try to make it look like what he was doing

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was legitimate.

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It was not.

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We have filed numerous federal charges against the five defendants.

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These charges include conspiracy to distribute ketamine, distribution of ketamine

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resulting in death, maintaining drug involved premises for that drug

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00:51:56.719 --> 00:52:02.239
selling emporium the defendant Sonya had, and falsifying records related

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00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:05.760
to a federal investigation for those false medical notes and

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00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:11.760
records that defendant Placentia made, and multiple other drug trafting counts.

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Of course, the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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00:52:18.039 --> 00:52:22.880
The penalties these defendants face are very significant, with their

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guard to defendant Placentia, the statutory maximum sentence he faces

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00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.880
is one hundred and twenty years in federal prison. Now

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00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:34.119
with their guard to defendant Sonia, the statutory maximum she

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00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:42.159
faces is life imprisonment. By filing these extensive and serious charges,

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we are sending a clear message if you are in

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00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:50.119
the business of selling dangerous drugs, we will hold you

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00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:54.239
accountable for the deaths that you cause. This is nothing

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00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:57.679
new for us. Since twenty twenty two, my office has

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00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:01.719
filed over sixty cases again against drug dealers who've caused

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00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:05.199
the death of another person. These cases are known as

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00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:10.480
death resulting cases. Their labor intensive cases, and we work

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00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:13.920
with our law enforcement partners, including ones represented here today,

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00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:17.760
to bring those cases. Our office is a national leader

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in bringing those cases. They're very important because every victim's

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00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:27.559
live counts. If you are in the drugs selling business,

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and you're selling dangerous drugs, you are playing roulette with

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00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:34.559
other people's lives, just like the five defendants here did

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00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:39.519
to mister Perry. Defendants nowadays are on full notice that

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the products they sell could result in the death of

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00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:47.599
another person. Therefore, if you're in the drug business and

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00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:50.880
despite these risks, you continue in the drug business, you

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00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:53.480
are pushed by greed to gamble with other people's lives,

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00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:58.760
be advised we will hold you accountable. I want to

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think our partner in this case, the Los Angeles Police Department,

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00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:08.559
the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the US Postal Inspection Service.

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00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:13.000
These investigators did a phenomenal job digging into the case,

782
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:17.039
looking at every angle to develop a case, a strong

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00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:22.199
case against not only those who killed mister Perry, but

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also mister mclory.

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I want to.

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Note that these cases are important and will continue to

787
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:31.239
collaborate with our law enforcement partners to bring them to

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00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:35.199
ensure that justice is brought to every victim. And finally,

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00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:39.320
let me thank the prosecutors responsible for the investigation and

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the prosecution of this case. Those are Assistant United States

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Attorneys Ian Yannello and Shaohan Si And now I'd like

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to introduce Chief of Los Angeles Police Department, Dominic CHOI.

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All right, more, and thank you Martin.

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00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:06.239
While it's tragedy that brings us all here together, I'm

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00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:10.960
happy to stand here knowing that these dangerous individuals are

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00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:12.719
no longer on the streets.

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And they won't be able to harm anyone else.

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The Los Angeles Police Department and our partners here today

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were committed to investigating all cases like this, and it's

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regardless of someone's background or socioeconomic status. And just with

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00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:34.199
all of our cases, this investigation was done impartially. We

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00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:39.320
let the facts drive this investigation, and those facts led

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00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:42.880
us to a group of individuals who were responsible for

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00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:47.079
supplying and distributing to mister Perry narcotics that led to

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00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:48.960
his unfortunate and untimely death.

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The group standing here today.

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It's a prime example how our partnerships and our collaboration

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can yield meaningful results. I want to thank lapd Our

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Robbery Homicide Division, who's standing in the back there, the

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00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:10.119
US Attorney Martinez Strada and his team, the DEA and

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00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:13.159
her team, as well as the US Postal Inspection Service

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00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:17.639
and their team for their hard work, diligence, and real patience.

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Now I know people think this took a long time,

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but there was a lot of work, a lot of

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00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:25.119
investigative strategies that went into this to make sure that

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00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:27.760
there's a solid case and that we can pursue this

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00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:35.280
in the courts. Our relationship with our federal partners it

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00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:40.000
helps us ensure that these criminals will have meaningful sentences

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and be an example for anyone that is willing to

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risk or jeopardize distributing and supplying unlawful or narcotics to anyone.

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And I just really want people to know that that

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00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:57.400
is the message. You cannot get away with this, regardless

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00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:02.039
of your backgrounder socio economic status, breaking the laws, breaking

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00:57:02.039 --> 00:57:04.880
the law, and you are dangerous and you are jeopardizing lives.

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So thank you all all my partners for being involved

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00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:10.199
in this and be bringing us to where we are

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at today. And at this time I'd like to introduce

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00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:20.239
dea Administrator and Milgrim.

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00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:25.840
Good morning. Today we announced charges brought against five individuals

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who together are responsible for the death of Matthew Perry.

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Each of the defendants played a key role in his death.

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00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:40.000
They falsely prescribed, sold, or injected the ketamine that caused

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00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:45.320
Matthew Perry's tragic death. In the United States, most forms

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of ketamine are only approved by the Food and Drug

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Administration for anesthesia. A nasal spray version is approved for

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treatment of depression, but only in a certified medical setting. Here,

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00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:04.079
Matthew Perry sought treatment for depression and anxiety and went

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00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:08.559
to a local clinic where he became addicted to intervenous ketamine.

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When clinic doctors refused to increase his dosage, he turned

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to unscrupulous doctors who saw Perry as a way to

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00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:24.400
make quick money. Doctor Placentia and doctor Chavez violated the

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00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:28.800
oath they took to care for their patients. Instead of

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00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:32.039
do no harm, they did harm so that they could

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00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:38.280
make more money without performing any medical evaluation or monitoring.

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00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:43.159
They supplied Matthew Perry with large amounts of ketamine in

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00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:48.159
exchange for large sums of money, charging Perry two thousand

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00:58:48.199 --> 00:58:53.960
dollars for a vial that cost doctor Chavez approximately twelve dollars.

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As Matthew Perry's ketamine addiction grew, he wanted more, and

849
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:03.559
he wanted it faster and cheaper. That is how he

850
00:59:03.719 --> 00:59:07.679
ended up buying from street dealers who sold the ketamine

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00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:12.360
that ultimately led to his death. In doing so, he

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00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:16.159
followed the arc that we have tragically seen with many

853
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:20.079
others whose substance use disorder begins in a doctor's office

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00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:24.760
and ends in the street. Perry turned to his street dealer,

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00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:28.760
Eric Fleming, who sourced his ketemine from a drug trafficker

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00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:34.559
known as the ketamine Queen Jasvine Sangha. The ketamine supplied

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00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:38.480
by Sangha would ultimately be the dose that took Matthew

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00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:43.159
Perry's life. Songghan knew that the ketamine she supplied could

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00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:47.639
be deadly, since in twenty nineteen she had sold ketamine

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00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:52.039
to Cody mclaurie, who died at the age of thirty three,

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but despite this knowledge, she continued to sell ketamine and

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00:59:56.000 --> 01:00:02.719
methamphetamine throughout Los Angeles. Matthew Perry's journey began with unscrupulous

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01:00:02.760 --> 01:00:06.280
doctors who abused their position of trust because they saw

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01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:09.440
him as a payday, and it ended with street dealers

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01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:14.559
who sold him ketamine in unmarked files. The desperation that

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01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:18.239
led Perry to these individuals was not met with help,

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01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:22.159
as it should have been from the doctors, but instead

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01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:26.320
it was met with exploitation. Exploitation by those who should

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01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:30.599
have guided him toward help. This betrayal of trust is

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at the heart of this tragedy. Since twenty twenty three,

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01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:41.239
DEA has investigated nearly five hundred drug poisoning and overdose

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01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:46.320
cases just like Matthew Perry's. We run a national initiative

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01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:49.679
known as od Justice, where we work with our state

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01:00:49.719 --> 01:00:54.719
and local law enforcement partners to conduct investigations after someone

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01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:59.840
has passed away. And it is important to note that

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the national model we today have in every fifty state

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across the United States is based on the work that

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started here in Los Angeles. We began this work with

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our partners in the Los Angeles Police Department and with

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other local police departments and sheriff's offices in California in

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the Los Angeles area, and with the US Attorney's Office,

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and today it stands as our national model for this

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critical work. Together, as part of od Justice, we work

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to bring justice for the lives that have been lost

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and to stop others from dying.

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So there you have it for exposed scandalous files of

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the elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman.

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