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LOS ANGELES – A third man has been arrested and charged with drug related offenses in connection with the death of rapper Mac Miller last year.
Court documents demonstrate that Stephen Walter is suspected of selling fentanyl-containing counterfeit oxycodone pills that Miller owned before he died last September of an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol and fentanyl, a powerful opioid that has contributed to an epidemic that has claimed the lives of thousands of people in the United States.
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Walter is accused of being behind the pills that another man, Cameron Pettit, sold to Miller. Court documents that were not sealed on Tuesday indicate that Pettit continued to receive Walter's drugs until August.
Ryan Reavis, who was arrested earlier this week in the city of Lake Havasu, Arizona, is accused of having served as "runner" to Walter, who delivered the pills to Pettit.
Rapper Mac Miller performs in Philadelphia in 2013. (Photo by Owen Sweeney / Invision / AP, File)
None of the men were directly charged with the death of Miller nor pleaded his case.
Walter, released under surveillance in a 2005 drug case, is in custody and has already been sentenced to five months in prison for violating the conditions of his release.
Prosecutors in charge of the case, who were first reported Thursday by the celebrity TMZ website, are asking Walter to remain in custody pending trial, calling it a serious risk of absconding.
A phone message left to his lawyer was not immediately returned.
Pettit was charged by a federal court on September 4 and his lawyer declined to comment. Pettit is scheduled to appear on October 10.
Miller's rhymes included a frank discussion of his depression and drug use, which earned him fans among the biggest names in hip-hop.
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Malcolm James Myers McCormick, originally from Pittsburgh, also had a two-year relationship with singer Ariana Grande who had ended earlier in 2018. After her death, she posted a loving video on him on his Instagram page and published a song, "Thank you next," who mentioned it with love.
Miller is one of the musicians whose deaths have been linked in recent years to the abuse of opioids. Prince died in 2016 after taking counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, which looked like a generic version of the painkiller Vicodin.
Matthew Roberts, guitarist of the band 3 Doors Down, also died of an overdose in 2016 and he had fentanyl and hydrocodone in his system.
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