Ryan Michael Reavis has pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of fentanyl in connection with Mac Miller’s overdose death three years ago.
He’s now the second man to plead guilty to that same charge in Miller’s death, after Stephen Andrew Walter, the 48-year-old man responsible for supplying the rapper’s drug dealer with counterfeit pharmaceutical pills containing fentanyl, entered his plea last month.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday (Nov. 10) that Reavis, 38, pleaded guilty to the federal criminal charge. In court documents obtained by Billboard, the new plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California states that on Sept. 4, 2018, Reavis followed the direction of fellow co-defendant Walter and knowingly distributed the counterfeit oxycodone pills, which he admitted to being aware contained fentanyl “or some other federally controlled substance,” to a third co-defendant, Cameron James Pettit. Pettit later distributed the pills to 26-year-old rapper Miller, who was found dead in his San Fernando Valley, Calif., home three days later as a result of an accidental overdose from cocaine, alcohol and fentanyl.
Reavis faces up to 20 years in jail and a lifetime of supervised release.
While both Reavis and Walter are expected to give their guilty pleas in front of U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II in L.A. in the next few weeks, Pettit’s case is still pending.
On Oct. 26, Mac Miller’s 2014 fan-favorite mixtape Faces landed on streaming services for the first time and went on to debut at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.
