Mac Miller's drug dealer, Stephen Walter, pleaded guilty to one felony count of distributing fentanyl, but says he didn't know what was inside the fatal pills.
The man accused of supplying Mac Miller with fentanyl-laced pills prior to the rapper's fatal overdose pleaded guilty to a distribution charge in a California court this week. Stephen Andrew Walter reached a plea agreement and faces a 20-year maximum sentence for his role in Miller's death. Walter told a runner to distribute counterfeit oxycodone pills containing the lethal drug fentanyl on September 4, 2018, which were then given to Miller's dealer, who provided them to the Pittsburgh rapper, according to a plea agreement. Miller died three days later in what was confirmed to be an overdose of a "mixed drug toxicity" including fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol. The alleged runner and dealer also face federal charges in connection to Miller's death. The plea agreement states that Walter was aware that the pills "contained fentanyl or some other federally controlled substance," and that they were intended to be delivered to the famous rapper. The plea