A man has been arrested on a charge of providing counterfeit drugs to Mac Miller days before his death.
A man has been arrested on a charge of providing counterfeit drugs to Mac Miller days before the rapperCameron James Pettit, 28, was arrested Wednesday morning by special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration and officers with the Los Angeles Police Department, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced in a press release.
According to the affidavit, Pettit and others distributed narcotics to Miller -- real name: Malcolm James McCormick -- approximately two days before he died of a drug overdose in his Studio City, California, home on Sept. 7, 2018. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner later determined that MillerBased on communications detailed in the affidavit, Pettit agreed to supply Miller with 30-milligram oxycodone pills, as well as cocaine and Xanax. However, in the early morning hours of Sept.
According to the affidavit, investigators believe that Miller died after snorting the counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, which had allegedly been provided by Pettit. While another individual allegedly also supplied McCormick with other drugs prior to his death, according to the affidavit, those narcotics drugs did not contain fentanyl.
“Fentanyl disguised as a genuine pharmaceutical is a killer -- which is being proven every day in America,” United States Attorney Nick Hanna said in the release. “Drugs laced with cheap and potent fentanyl are increasingly common, and we owe it to the victims and their families to aggressively target the drug dealers that cause these overdose deaths.”
If convicted of the drug trafficking charge alleged in the complaint, Pettit will face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. The affidavit states that hours after news outlets reported Miller's death, Pettit sent a message to a friend saying, “Most likely I will die in jail.”
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