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Trader sentenced to nearly 11 years for rapper Mac Miller’s overdose death

LOS ANGELES – An Arizona man who helped deliver the fake oxycodone drug that led to rapper Mac Miller’s overdose death was sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison on Monday, federal prosecutors said.

Ryan Reavis, 38, is one of three men charge in the musician’s 2018 death in the Studio City section of Los Angeles.

Reavis pleaded guilty in November to a fentanyl distribution count. His attorney described him as a “runner” who delivered oxycodone-containing pills, but did not know they contained fentanyl.

Miller, whose legal name is Malcolm James McCormick, is found dead at home on September 7, 2018.

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Reavis was acting at the direction of another man, Stephen Andrew Walter, when he delivered the pills to Cameron James Pettit, who then allegedly sold them to Miller, prosecutors said.

Reavis and Walter pleaded guilty. Pettit has pleaded not guilty.

Miller died of “mixed drug poisoning” including cocaine, fentanyl and alcohol, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiners said.

Reavis on Monday was sentenced to 131 months – or 10 years and 11 months – in prison, according to court records. He will also be released under supervised release for three years.

He is a heroin and opioid addict who has used drugs to support his addiction, his attorney said in a sentencing memo filed before Monday’s sentencing date. . At the time of Miller’s fatal drug overdose, he was living in Los Angeles.

Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of about 12 and a half years in prison, according to court documents. They said he sold oxycodone pills, known as “blues”, despite discussing how dangerous and deadly the fake pills were.

Walter in November pleaded guilty and has yet to be convicted, according to court records. Officials said both sides had agreed to a 17-year sentence in a plea agreement, which must be approved by a judge.

Upon his death, Miller had recently released his fifth album, “Swimming,” and a tour was scheduled to begin that October.

He was nominated for his first Grammy Award in December 2018, three months after his death, for best rap album for “Swimming.” The sixth album, “The Circle”, is released after the posthumous.

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