Drug Dealer That Sold Lethal Fentanyl To Mac Miller Sentenced To 17 Years In Prison

The drug dealer that sold Mac Miller a fatal dose of fentanyl has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in federal prison.

Miller was 26 years old when he passed away in his home from a lethal concoction of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol.

The judge rejected Stephen Walter's plea deal as it was "too lenient" after he continued to sell fentanyl-laced oxycodone pills following the rapper's passing in September of 2018.

“The court has elected not to accept that plea agreement. So, sir, if you want, at this point, you can withdraw your guilty plea and go to trial,” Judge Wright said.

“I may as well lay it out, okay. When you continue to engage in this activity even after your activities killed someone, I’m having a tough time not staying within the guidelines.”

Walter is now the second convicted drug dealer to receive more than a decade in jail following the death of Mac Miller. Fellow drug dealer and peer, Ryan Reavis, received a sentence of just under 11 years last month.

“My actions caused a lot of pain, and for that I’m truly remorseful. I’m not that type of person who wants to hurt anybody. That’s not me. But on the paperwork where it says that I continued to conduct in that kind of behaviour after I knew that there was death, that’s not the truth, your honour,” Walter responded in court in Los Angeles. 

In his issuing of the sentence, Wright quoted that Miller's presence in the public eye had no impact on the result of the trial, stating, "This was a human being who unwittingly took something that will flat out kill you, and I have no idea why we have people out here dealing in this stuff, peddling this stuff.

"Everybody now knows this stuff will kill you. I need to be quiet because I’m talking myself into something stratospheric.”