Drug dealer in Mac Miller case sentenced to over 17 years for fentanyl distribution

nme.com:

three men charged in relation to Mac Miller‘s 2018 death from a drug overdose has been sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison.Stephen Andrew Walter, 49, was handed the sentence on Monday (May 16) after pleading guilty to a single charge of fentanyl distribution.

Walter had previously agreed to a 17-year sentence as part of a plea deal last year, dropping the more serious charge of fentanyl distribution resulting in death.However, the judge in the case, Otis D.

Wright II, rejected the plea this week on the basis that Walter had continued to sell the oxycontin pills that led to Miller’s overdose after the rapper’s death.It’s alleged that Walter supplied fentanyl-laced oxycontin pills to co-defendant Cameron James Pettit in September of 2018, which were run to Pettit by the pair’s other co-defendant, Ryan Michael Reavis.The pills were then allegedly supplied to Miller, along with cocaine and Xanax.

The rapper was found dead on September 7, aged 26, and his death was later ruled an accidental drug overdose due to a “mixed drug toxicity” of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol.Walter has repeatedly claimed he did not know that the pills he supplied to co-defendant Cameron James Pettit contained fentanyl.