Stephen Andrew Walter admitted to supplying the counterfeit oxycodone drugs that finally made their option to Miller.
A California man charged with supplying fentanyl-laced drugs earlier than Mac Miller’s deadly 2018 overdose was sentenced Monday to greater than 17 years in jail.
At a listening to in Los Angeles federal court docket, U.S. District Choose Otis D. Wright sentenced Stephen Andrew Walter to 210 months in jail over his function in Miller’s loss of life. As a part of a November plea deal, Walter admitted to supplying a drug supplier with the counterfeit oxycodone drugs that finally made their option to Miller.
Walter pleaded responsible to a single rely of fentanyl distribution, which carries a compulsory 20-year sentence. However below the settlement, federal prosecutors solely requested 17 years and 6 months. An lawyer for Walter didn't instantly return a request for touch upon Monday.
Miller was discovered lifeless at his San Fernando Valley, California, residence on Sept. 7, 2018. The rapper died of an unintentional overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol, in line with the toxicology report launched by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s workplace.
Walter was charged in October 2019, together with Cameron James Pettit, 28, and Ryan Michael Reavis, 36. Prosecutors say that Miller negotiated to purchase oxycodone from Pettit, however that the supplier bought him faux drugs laced with lethal fentanyl. Walter allegedly equipped the drugs, and Reavis allegedly delivered them to Pettit.
Reavis pleaded responsible in November and was sentenced final month to almost 11 years in jail. The case in opposition to Pettit stays pending.
This story first appeared on Billboard.com.