Drug Dealer Arrested in Mac Miller Overdose
Almost a year ago to the day, Mac Miller unexpectedly passed away from a drug overdose at 26 years of age. It was the most shocking and saddening death I’ve ever experienced, which says a lot because I was merely a huge fan of Mac and his music. In the immediate aftermath, fans and loved ones searched for answers. It was reported as an “apparent overdose” right away but the actual combination of drugs wasn’t known from the jump.
Two months after his initial passing, the toxicology report came out via the L.A. County Coroner’s Office. Mac, less than a month after releasing his most critically-acclaimed album, Swimming, had passed away due to an accidental overdose of fentanyl, cocaine, and alcohol. Per TMZ, “the amount of each drug was not necessarily a lethal amount, but the combination is what killed him.”
Generally, people don’t buy fentanyl knowingly, so it was assumed he had purchased tainted drugs. Personally, I thought it would have been cut with the cocaine because it would have been easy for a drug dealer to mix fentanyl powder with cocaine. As it turns out, that wasn’t the case.
Today, September 4th, 2019, it was revealed that he was sold “counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl,” per an NBC News report. The supplier, 28-year-old Cameron James Pettit, was charged with one count of distribution of a controlled substance, according to the same report.
The 42-page criminal complaint filed in the Central District of California alleges that Cameron James Pettit, 28, supplied Miller with counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl. Miller had asked to be furnished with “percs,” an abbreviation for Percocet, a prescribed painkiller containing oxycodone.
Investigators, who served search warrants at multiple locations, recovered a plastic bag containing pills allegedly supplied by a prostitute and a madam. Two days earlier, Pettit delivered to Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl, cocaine and Xanax.
“We are aggressively targeting drug dealers responsible for trafficking illicit fentanyl, which has become the most deadly facet of the opioid epidemic,” said United States Attorney Nick Hanna. “We are committed to slowing the number of overdose deaths and prosecuting those responsible for spreading this most dangerous opioid.”
The criminal complaint detailed Instagram direct messages between Pettit and others reacting to the rapper’s death. “I think I should probably not post anything …just to be smart,” Petit allegedly said in one of the texts.
Asked in another text message how he was doing, Petit, who has been charged with one count of distribution of a controlled substance, allegedly wrote: “I am not great … Most likely I will die in jail.”
(via NBC News)
RIP Mac Miller