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A man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for directing fentanyl-laced pills to be given to rapper Mac Miller before the rapper died of an overdose.
Stephen Andrew Walter pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of fentanyl in November 2021.
The offense carries a 20-year mandatory minimum prison term, but under a plea agreement, Walter will instead serve a 17-year prison term.
Walter knew that the pills contained fentanyl or some other federally controlled substance.
He is one of three people charged in the overdose death of Miller.
Former West Los Angeles resident Ryan Michael Reavis was sentenced last month to nearly 11 years in prison after also pleading guilty to distribution of fentanyl.
A case against 30-year-old Cameron Pettit of West Hollywood is pending.
Source: KTLA.
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