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UPDATED: A Westwood man was sentenced today to more than 17 years behind bars for his role in supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that led to rapper Mac Miller’s fatal overdose four years ago.
Stephen Walter was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Walter, 49, pleaded guilty last year to a federal count of distribution of fentanyl.
In September 2018, Miller died of a drug overdose — namely, a fatal mixture of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol. Just a few days before the 26-year-old rapper’s death, Walter supplied the fentanyl that ultimately killed him.
Two others were also charged. Ryan Reavis, 39, pleaded guilty to the distribution charge and was sentenced in April to almost 11 years behind bars. The case against Cameron Pettit, 30, of West Hollywood, is pending.
The pills traveled from Walter to Reavis, who supplied the counterfeit oxycodone pills to the third defendant, according to papers filed in Los Angeles federal court.
Reavis admitted knowing that the pills contained fentanyl or some other controlled substance. Shortly after Reavis handed over the pills, Pettit allegedly supplied them to Malcolm McCormick — who recorded and performed under the name Mac Miller — two days before the rapper suffered a fatal overdose in Studio City on Sept. 7, 2018, federal prosecutors said.
PREVIOUSLY on April 18: Ryan Reavis was sentenced today to 131 months behind bars for his role in supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that led to rapper Mac Miller’s fatal overdose four years ago.
Reavis, 39, pleaded guilty last year to a federal count of distribution of fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Two others were also charged. Stephen Walter, 49, of Westwood, pleaded guilty to the
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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.
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