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One of two doctors charged in Matthew Perry’s death pleads guilty
Mark Chavez, 52, signed a plea agreement in which he admitted to obtaining ketamine from his former clinic
One of two doctors charged in the investigation of the death of Matthew Perry pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a federal court in Los Angeles to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine.
Dr Mark Chavez, 54, of San Diego, signed a plea agreement with prosecutors in August and is now the third person to plead guilty in the aftermath of the Friends star’s fatal overdose last year.
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