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Drug dealer who sold rapper Mac Miller fentanyl-laced pills sentenced to more than a decade in prison

One of the three men convicted of selling opioid-crisis” target=”_blank”>fentanyl-laced< in 2018, was sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison this week. 

Ryan Reavis, 39, pleaded crime” target=”_blank”>guilty<

Pettit sold the fentanyl-laced pills to Mac Miller the next day and the Grammy-nominated artist was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment on Sept. 7.

Walter also pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl last year, while the case against Pettit is pending, Fox 11 Los Angeles reports. 

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    In this July 13, 2013, file photo, rapper Mac Miller performs on his Space Migration Tour in Philadelphia.  (Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)

  • FILE - In this July 13, 2013 file photo, rapper Mac Miller performs on his Space Migration Tour at Festival Pier in Philadelphia. Miller, the platinum hip-hop star whose rhymes vacillated from party raps to lyrics about depression and drug use, has died at the age of 26. A family statement released through his publicists says Miller died Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, and there are no further details available on how he died. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File) Image 2 of 2

    (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)

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Mac Miller, whose real name was Malcolm James Myers McCormick, had alcohol, cocaine, and fentanyl in his system when he died. 

The CDC estimates at least 105,000 Americans died of drug overdose deaths last year, about two-thirds of which were attributed to fentanyl. 

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