By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: A person who admitted supplying the vendor who offered Mac Miller the medicine that killed the rapper has been sentenced to greater than 10 years in jail.
Ryan Michael Reavis, 39, pleaded responsible final yr to a single depend of distribution of fentanyl.
Reavis knowingly provided counterfeit oxycodone drugs containing fentanyl to co-defendant Cameron James Pettit, 30, of Los Angeles, in accordance with a plea settlement. Pettit offered the drugs and different medicine to Miller, who two days later suffered a deadly overdose, in accordance with prosecutors.
Another co-defendant, Stephen Andrew Walter, 48, of Los Angeles, additionally agreed to plead responsible to at least one depend of distribution of fentanyl. Prosecutors stated Reavis provided the drugs to Pettit on the course of Walter.
Reavis obtained a 131-month sentence on Monday, in accordance with Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.
Walter is scheduled to be sentenced on May 16, McEvoy stated. The case in opposition to Pettit is pending. Miller’s assistant discovered the rapper unresponsive in his Los Angeles dwelling on Sept. 7, 2018, and he was declared useless quickly after.
Miller was a Pittsburgh native whose actual identify was Malcolm James Myers McCormick. “Circles,” his sixth and last studio album, was launched posthumously in 2020.
