Mac Miller drug dealer sentenced to 10 years in prison

Mac Miller drug dealer sentenced to 10 years in prison

A man accused of supplying fentanyl-containing pills before McMiller’s fatal overdose in 2018 was sentenced Monday (April 18) to nearly 11 years in prison.

At a hearing in Los Angeles Federal Court, US District Judge Otis D. Wright sentenced Ryan Michael Revis to 10 years and 11 months in prison. The verdict came six months after he reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to a fentanyl distribution point.

Federal prosecutors initially wanted 12 years and seven months for Revis, who admitted to supplying counterfeit oxycodone pills to a drug dealer who ended up selling them to Miller. Revis’ lawyers argued that he deserved just five years, with longer or supervised probation.

Miller was found dead in the San Fernando Valley, California, on September 7, 2018. The murderer of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol, according to a toxicology report published by the Office of the District Court of the County of The angels. According to a statement issued by US Attorney Nick Hanna in October, “We are seeing more and more drug dealers selling counterfeit fentanyl drugs. As a result, fentanyl is now the number one cause of overdose mortality in the United States.

Revis isn’t the only person to blame for Miller’s death: In 2019, a year after the rapper’s death, two more men were charged with fatal overdose. Cameron James Petit was arrested in Los Angeles on September 4, 2019 for selling fake fentanyl oxycodone pills to rapper Malcolm McCormick. A third man, Stephen Walter, was arrested for extracting a deadly oxycodone which he sold to Petty Miller.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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