On April 18 (local time), Ryan Reavis – the drug supplier to Mac Miller, was sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison for his misconduct. The incident related to the sudden death of Mac in September 2018.

Ryan Reavis (pictured) was convicted of providing fentanyl to Mac Miller before the male rapper died in 2018

According to PageSix , 39-year-old Ryan Reavis is one of three people charged in the drug overdose that killed rapper Mac Miller (real name: Malcolm James McCormick ) in September 2018. This subject admitted to providing the late American artist with pills containing fentanyl before being sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison. Rolling Stone said earlier that Ryan Reavis asked for a five-year sentence because he thought he was just a middleman and did not know the pills being sold contained dangerous substances. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 12 years and 6 months in prison.

Before the judge announced the final sentence on April 18, Karen Meyers – Mac Miller’s mother, insisted that her son would never have taken the drug if he knew they contained fentanyl because Mac always wanted to live and was very excited. when talking about the future. “My life went dark when Malcolm left this world ,” she said. Malcolm is my most important person, more than a son. We have a deep and irreplaceable bond. We talked almost every day about everything – his life, his plans, his music and his dreams.” The late star’s mother added: “The hole in my heart will always be there.”

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Ryan Reavis was arrested in September 2019 after police raided his home in Lake Havasu, Arizona (USA) and found a stack of doctor’s prescriptions and unidentified pills that were sold only by prescription. , injecting equipment, and a “usable” amount of marijuana. This man pleaded guilty in November 2021. Meanwhile, Stephen Walter – who is also accused of distributing fentanyl – has pleaded guilty but has not been convicted and the case of the third subject Cameron Pettit is still being handled by authorities.

Mac Miller (1992 – 2018) is known as a talented rapper and music producer in the US. He joined the hip-hop scene in 2007 and resonated with the albums: Blue Slide Park (2011), Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), GO:OD AM (2015), The Divine Feminine (2016), Swimming (2018)… The Grammy-nominated star dated Ariana Grande from August 2016 to May 2018.

He struggles with addiction and substance abuse and often refers to these issues in his lyrics. On September 9, 2018, Mac Miller died at his home in Los Angeles from an overdose of ethanol (or alcohol), cocaine and fentanyl.

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