According to a plea agreement filed in California, a drug dealer admitted to providing the fentanyl-laced pills that caused rapper Mac Miller’s death overdose in 2018.

Stephen Andrew Walter, the drug dealer, pled guilty to one count of fentanyl distribution.

According to the plea bargain, on September 4, 2018, Walter directed a runner to deliver counterfeit oxycodone pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl. According to the document, the runner supplied the pills to Miller’s dealer, who then gave them to Miller.

He died three days later of “mixed drug poisoning" caused by fentanyl, cocaine, and alcohol, according to the coroner.

The plea agreement states that Walter knew the pills “contained fentanyl or some other federally controlled substance," and knew they would be given to the dealer. It also says Miller “would not have died from an overdose but for the fentanyl contained in the pills." 

Walter now faces a possible term of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million for his role in the fentanyl distribution. The dealer and the suspected runner have also been charged.

Miller, whose real name is Malcolm James McCormick, rose to prominence in the rap industry in 2010. He signed with Warner Records in 2014 after two chart-topping albums. Miller had just published his fifth studio album and was about to embark on a tour when he died.

The rapper and producer was open about his struggles with alcoholism. he said: “It just seems exhausting to always be battling something … to always be battling for what you think your image is supposed to be," Miller told Vulture in one of his final interviews, published the day before his death.

“You’re never going to be able to get anything across. It’s never gonna be the real … No one’s gonna ever really know me. You know what I mean? That’s okay. The people that have the best chance of knowing me, that would like to, would just be by listening to my music. Even friends that I’ve lost touch with, if they ask how I’ve been, I’m like, “That’s the best way to know how I’m doing."

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