A licensed addiction counselor who helped sell ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry will be sentenced.
LOS ANGELES — A licensed addiction counselor offers help ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry The man who administered the dose of ketamine that caused his death will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Prosecutors seek 2 1/2 years in prison for 56-year-old man Eric Flemingis one of five people to plead guilty to the actor’s death in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home in 2023. Fleming linked Perry to Jaswan SanghaConvicted drug dealer dubbed “Ketamine Queen” by prosecutors. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison last month.
Defense attorneys asked for a sentence of three months in prison and nine months in a residential drug treatment facility, saying in a sentencing memorandum that Fleming “has gone to great lengths to atone for his criminal conduct.”
Once investigators contacted Sanga, Fleming turned him over and in August 2024 became the first defendant to plead guilty to one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death. That was before the arrests were announced in the case.
He will be the fourth The defendant in this case will be sentenced in Los Angeles federal court before Judge Sherlyn Peace Garnett. It will be his first court appearance since his role became public knowledge.
Prosecutors said in their sentencing memorandum that while Fleming’s outstanding cooperation should reduce his sentence, his role as a drug counselor who “knowingly sold illegal street drugs to a victim who had a public, well-documented struggle with addiction” should count against him, even though Perry was not one of his regular clients.
Perry had been taking ketamine to treat depression — an increasingly common off-label medication.
A few weeks before his death, Perry is looking for more drugs than he could get by doctor And ask friends to help him get more. She was in a treatment facility, so she introduced Perry to Fleming. He was a film and television producer whose career was ruined by drug addiction. He recovered and became a drug counselor, but his addiction relapsed in 2023 after the death of a beloved stepmother who rescued him from a traumatic childhood, his attorney said.
Fleming would obtain ketamine from Sangha, increase the price to make a profit, and then deliver it to Perry’s home, where he would sell it to the actor’s live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Imasa.
“I purchased ketamine for Matthew Perry because I wanted the money and thought I was doing a friend a favor,” Fleming said in a letter to the court. “I never considered the worst-case scenario. This tragic failure will forever haunt me.”
Four days before Perry died, he delivered 25 bottles worth $6,000.
Yanzheng injected Perry with this batch of drugs on October 28, 2023, and found Perry dead a few hours later. The forensic report found that Perry dies Acute effects of ketamine, a surgical anesthetic, with drowning as a secondary cause.
Technically, Fleming could be sentenced to 25 years in prison, but the chances of getting anything close to that are slim to none.
His lawyer said Perry has undergone a “transformative” recovery since his death.
“I will accept my punishment humbly and spend the rest of my life trying to make myself worthy of forgiveness,” Fleming said in the letter.
Yanzheng is the last defendant to be sentenced in two weeks.
Perry, who died aged 54, became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing. “Friends,” The culture-changing sitcom that aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004.
Auction his valuables including “Friends” Souvenirs Shortly after his death, he will donate to a foundation established in his name.
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