Man who allegedly supplied Mac Miller with fentanyl-laced pills is held without bail
LA TimesSoon after news reports of Mac Miller’s overdose death last year, the hip-hop artist’s alleged drug dealer anxiously messaged a friend on Instagram. “But it might.” Now, almost exactly a year later, the 28-year-old Hollywood Hills man is facing 20 years in federal prison on a charge that he sold counterfeit oxycodone laced with fentanyl to Miller two days before his death. “People should know that if they consume black market opioid pills they’re playing Russian roulette.” Pettit appeared in court briefly late Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Audero ordered Pettit detained, citing messages suggesting plans to leave the country as well as the seizure of empty pill capsules, a ledger and narcotics at his home. In court documents, authorities cited text messages that show Pettit agreed to give Miller, whose real name is Malcolm James McCormick, 30-milligram oxycodone pills, cocaine and Xanax.
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