UPDATE: One of the doctors who dealt drugs to Matthew Perry just before the Friends star’s OD death over two years ago was sentenced today to 30 months in prison.

With Perry’s mother and half-sister in attendance, U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett hit Salvador Plasencia with 2.5 years behind bars and a $5,600 fine. Having entered a guilty plea back in the early summer, Plasencia was immediately taken into custody as Wednesday’s hearing concluded.

Plasencia, who called his client Perry a “moron” in texts with Dr. Mark Chavez of San Diego over providing and selling ketamine to the actor, who was fighting addiction, apologized today in court for his role in the Emmy winner’s death. “I failed him, I should have protected him,” he said of Perry.

Perry was found dead in his

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