Counselor Who Supplied Fatal Dose of Ketamine to Matthew Perry Faces Sentencing
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
An addiction counselor who provided 'Friends' actor Matthew Perry with the ketamine doses that led to his death is set to be sentenced on Wednesday. Prosecutors are seeking a two-and-a-half-year prison term for Erik Fleming, 56, one of five individuals who pleaded guilty in connection with the actor's death in 2023, which occurred in the jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home. Fleming connected Perry with Jasveen Sangha, the convicted drug dealer whom prosecutors dubbed 'the ketamine queen.' She was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison. Defense attorneys are requesting a three-month jail sentence and nine months in a residential drug treatment center, arguing in a sentencing memo that Fleming 'has made extreme efforts to amend his criminal behavior.' Fleming turned over Sangha to investigators as soon as he was contacted and, in August 2024, became the first defendant to plead guilty, admitting to a charge of ketamine distribution resulting in death, even before arrests in the case were announced. He will be the fourth defendant in the case to be sentenced in the federal courtroom of Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett in Los Angeles. This will be his first court appearance since his role in the case became public.
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