Drug supplier pleads guilty to involvement in Mac Miller's fatal overdose

The man who provided drugs to Mac Miller's drug dealer could face up to 21 years in jail after agreeing to accept a prison sentence.

Stephen Walter, who is one of the three men charged in connection with the rapper's fatal overdose in 2018, has pleaded guilty for distributing fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills.

According to court documents filed in United States District Court for the Central District of California on Monday and obtained by multiple publications, Walter "knowingly and intentionally directed Ryan Michael Reavis to distribute fentanyl in the form of counterfeit oxycodone pills, to Cameron James Pettit" on September 4, 2018.

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The documents state he also "knew that the pills that he directed Reavis to give to Pettit contained fentanyl or some other federally controlled substance, and at all relevant times intended for Reavis to distribute the pills to Pettit. Later that evening, at defendant's direction, Reavis delivered the pills to Pettit. Shortly thereafter, Pettit distributed these pills containing fentanyl to M.M.."

According to prosecutors, Miller "would not have died from an overdose but for the fentanyl contained in the pills that M.M. had received from Pettit on September 4, 2018."

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Walter faces between 17 and 21 years in prison for his role in the fentanyl distribution, in addition to a US$1 million (approx. $1.3 million) fine.

Reavis and Pettit — the alleged runner and the dealer — have also been charged. They have both pled not guilty and are scheduled to go on trial in March 2022, according to Pitchfork.

Miller died on September 7, 2018, of an accidental overdose at his home in the Studio City neighbourhood of Los Angeles.