Dealer pleads guilty to distributing fentanyl-laced pills that caused Mac Miller's fatal overdose
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A man pleaded guilty Monday to distributing the fentanyl-laced pills that caused rapper Mac Miller's fatal overdose in 2018, according to a plea agreement filed in California. Stephen Andrew Walter pleaded guilty to one count of distributing fentanyl.
On September 4, 2018, Walter told a runner to distribute counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained the synthetic drug fentanyl, according to the plea agreement. That runner gave the pills to Miller's dealer, who provided them to Miller, the document said. Three days later, he died of what a coroner later described as a "mixed drug toxicity" of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol.
The plea agreement states that Walter knew the pills "contained fentanyl or some other federally controlled substance," and knew they would be given to the dealer. It also says Miller "would not have died from an overdose but for the fentanyl contained in the pills."
