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www.desitalk.com – that’s all you need to know 9 NATIONAL AFFAIRS April 17, 2026 ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha, Sentenced To 15 Years Over Matthew Perry’s Death J asveen Sangha, a drug dealer who pleaded guilty in September 2025 to drug-related charges, including providing actor Matthew Perry with the dose of ketamine that killed him, was sentencedWednesday to 15 years in prisonWednesday.’Keta Sangha, 42, was known to her clients as the “Ketamine Queen,” according to court documents. Following an investigation into the “Friends” actor’s fatal overdose in 2023 at age 54, Sangha was charged alongside four others in August 2024. She pleaded guilty to one count of using her home for drug distribution, three counts of distribution of ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death. Before her guilty plea, Sangha’s attor- ney, Mark Geragos, denied the allegations against Sangha, saying in a documentary last year that she had “never met Matthew Perry.” Sangha, who has been in custody since August 2024, is a dual citizen of the United States and Britain. Ahead of Sangha’s sentencing, prosecutors asked Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett to sentence Sangha to 15 years in prison. In a victim impact statement filed Tuesday that read like a poem, Perry’s stepmother, Debbie Perry, asked the court for a maximum sentence for Sangha. “The pain you’ve caused/ to hundreds maybe thousands,” she wrote, “Is irreversible.” Matthew Perry, best known for his role as Chandler Bing on “Friends,” the sitcom that became a cultural behemoth in the 1990s, wrote openly about his struggles with addiction. In his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” he recounted his struggles with Vicodin, alcohol, cocaine, Xanax and Sub- oxone, as well as scores of rehab stints. “You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my weight from season to season,” Perry wrote of his 10 seasons on “Friends.” “When I’m carry- ing weight, it’s alcohol. When I’m skinny, it’s pills. When I have a goatee, it’s lots of pills.” He also starred in films such as “The Whole Nine Yards” (2000) and “17 Again” (2009), and was Emmy-nominated for his appearances on “TheWestWing” and in the TV movie “The Ron Clark Story.” Perry was found dead in a hot tub at his home in October 2023. Around the time of his death, Perry had been receiving ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety, but was also addicted to the drug, according to prosecutors. The Los Angeles County medical exam- iner’s office concluded the actor had died of the acute effects of ketamine, ruling the death an accident with no signs of foul play, before an investigation was launched into the death. Sangha is the third of the suspects connected to Perry’s death to be charged. In December, Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for multiple drug charges. Later that month, Mark Chavez received a sentence of eight months of home confinement. Both Plasencia and Chavez are physicians. Perry’s acquaintance Erik Fleming and his live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa both pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine in October 2024, and will be sentenced in the coming weeks. This is a developing story and will be updated. - TheWashington Post By Ethan Beck Pakistani National Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Commit ISIS-Inspired Attack At Jewish Center In New York T he Justice Department announced April 8, 2026, that Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, also known as “Shahzeb Jadoon,” pleaded guilty to attempt- ing to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, for attempting to enter the United States and carry out a mass shooting with automatic weapons at a prominent Jewish center in Brooklyn, New York. Khan pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe and is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 12, 2026. As alleged in the charging instruments and other public filings: In or about November 2023, Khan, a Pakistani national residing in Canada, began posting on social media and communicating with others about his support for ISIS, including by distributing ISIS propaganda videos and literature. Khan subsequently began planning terrorist at- tacks in the United States in support of ISIS, including by communicating his plans with two individuals who, un- beknownst to Khan, were undercover officers (the UCs). Khan told the UCs that he and a U.S.-based associate (Associate-1) had been planning to carry out a terrorist attack in a particular U.S. city (City-1) using AR-style as- sault rifles to “target[] Israeli Jewish chabads . . . scattered all around [City-1].”[1] Khan repeatedly instructed the UCs to obtain AR-style assault rifles, ammunition, and other materials to carry out the attacks, and identified locations in City-1 where the attacks would take place. Khan also told the UCs that he had identified a human smuggler who would help him cross the border from Canada into the United States for the attack. In or about August 2024, Khan changed his target to NewYork City, telling the UCs that the target location would now be a prominent Jewish religious center in Brooklyn, NewYork (Location-1). Khan conveyed that he hoped to carry out this attack on or around October 7, 2024 —which Khan recognized as the one-year anniver- sary of the brutal and deadly terrorist attacks in Israel carried out by the foreign terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023. Khan told the UCs that “New york is perfect to target jews” because it has the “largest Jewish population in america,” and, as such, “even if we dont attack a[n] Event[,] we could rack up easily a lot of jews.” Khan told the UCs that “we are going to nyc to slaughter them,” and later sent a photograph to the UCs of the specific enclosed area inside of Location-1 where Khan planned to carry out his attack. In the days that followed, Khan continued to urge the UCs to acquire AR-style rifles, hunting knives to “slit their throats,” and other equip- ment for the attack, and reiterated his desire to carry out this attack in support of ISIS. During one such communi- cation, Khan noted that “if we succeed with our plan this would be the largest Attack on US soil since 9/11.” On or about Sept. 4, 2024, Khan attempted to reach the U.S.-Canada border using a human smuggler. Khan traveled from the vicinity of Toronto, Canada, toward the United States, before he was stopped and arrested in or around Ormstown, Canada, approximately 12 miles from the U.S.-Canada border. Khan, 21, a Pakistani citizen who was residing in Canada, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundar- ies, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. The potential maximum penalty in this case is pre- scribed by Congress and provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by a judge. Extracts from Justice Department Press Release PHOTO:HTTPS://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/P/CDL7S2BV3OC/ PHOTO:REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR/FILE PHOTO Jasveen Sangha. A makeshift memorial for actor Matthew Perry, the wise-cracking co-star of the 1990s hit television sitcom “Friends,” who was found dead at his Los Angeles home October 28, is pictured on Bedford Street in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., October 30, 2023.