Second man agrees to plead guilty in Mac Miller’s fentanyl overdose
LOS ANGELES – An Arizona man charged for his role in supplying counterfeit fentanyl-laced pills to the drug dealer who sold them to Mac Miller before the rapper’s fatal overdose has agreed to plead guilty on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said.
Ryan Michael Reavis, 38, of Lake Havasu City, pleaded guilty to a single county of distributing counterfeit oxycodone pills with fentanyl, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. He is the second person to enter a guilty plea in the death of Miller, 26, who died of an accidental dose of fentanyl, along with cocaine and alcohol, at his California home on Sept. 7, 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Late last month, Stephen Andrew Walter, 48, of Westwood, California, reached a plea deal with federal investigators on the sole felony count of distribution of fentanyl, according to CBS News.
Walter received a 17-year prison term in exchange for the removal of charges directly connected to Miller’s death, Rolling Stone reported.
Reavis is accused of supplying the counterfeit oxycodone pills to co-defendant Cameron James Pettit, 30, of West Hollywood, on Sept. 4, 2018, according to The Arizona Republic. Pettit is accused of giving the pills to Miller, the newspaper reported.
>> Mac Miller’s drug supplier pleads guilty to fentanyl charge in rapper’s fatal overdose
Reavis, who moved to Arizona in 2019, admitted to knowing that the pills contained fentanyl or some other controlled substance, according to the Department of Justice’s news release.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
According to KTLA, just 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal — depending on a person’s body size, tolerance and past use.
Walter and Reavis are expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks before United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II in Los Angeles, according to the news release.
The case against Pettit is pending, according to the Justice Department.
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