One of the men charged in the 2018 death of Mac Miller has just been sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison for supplying the rapper with counterfeit oxycodone laced with fentanyl.
Although he denied having been aware of the presence of fentanyl in the drug sold to Mac Miller (Malcom McCormick of his real name), Ryan Michael Reavis received a sentence of 10 years and 11 months in prison on Monday. .
Whoever allegedly supplied the oxycodone pills that caused the rapper’s death to another vendor was asking for five years in prison. The federal court in Los Angeles decided otherwise. The judge delivered his verdict after a statement from McCormick’s mother, Karen Meyers, was read in court.
As well as talking about her son’s “infectious and radiant” laughter, she said he would never have used the drug if he had known it contained fentanyl. “He wanted to live and he was excited about the future,” she said.
Text messages revealed by the prosecutor during the trial revealed that the accused continued to sell drugs almost a year after the tragic death of Mac Miller, but above all that he was aware that fake pills were circulating and continuing to kill consumers.
Mac Miller died at the age of 26 at his Los Angeles residence from a lethal mixture of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol. Two other men are accused in this case.
With La presse.ca