The Los Angeles County coroner’s report named the 26-year-old Miller’s cause of death as “mixed toxicity,” saying cocaine, alcohol and the powerful opioid fentanyl were found in his system.
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LOS ANGELES - Mac Miller died from an accidental overdose due to a combination of alcohol and drugs, including fentanyl, a coroner’s report released Monday said. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. He often rapped about substance abuse and spoke openly about his struggles with depression and addiction.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Each of his albums debuted in the Top Five of the Billboard chart.
Miller was known as a versatile rapper and producer who refused to adhere to one style. A major component in the growing opiate crisis across the United States, fentanyl is often mixed into black-market supplies of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and benzodiazepines. Miller in the company of other musicians like Prince, Tom Petty and Lil Peep, all of whom died from accidental overdoses involving the drug in recent years. Pettit could face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. If convicted of the drug trafficking charge, Mr. He was separately sentenced to 30 days that year for brandishing a fake gun in a threatening manner. Pettit was sentenced to 30 days in jail in 2010 for possessing a controlled substance. Pettit, declined to comment on the case.Ĭourt records show that Mr. The Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Central District of California, which is representing Mr. Pettit was ordered held without bail pending trial, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Pettit sent a message to a friend saying, “Most likely I will die in jail,” according to the complaint.Īt a court hearing Wednesday afternoon, Mr.
Hours after the rapper’s death was reported on Sept. Investigators believe that these were the pills provided by Mr. Testing showed that this batch contained fentanyl. It was evident that he had crushed and snorted at least one pill from the other batch, which looked slightly different, according to the complaint. “They were tested and there was no fentanyl,” he said. Miller had crushed and snorted pills from only one source.Īll five pills provided by the woman were still in his possession when he died, according to Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. A Drug Enforcement Administration agent later determined that Mr. Miller with blue pills that appeared to be oxycodone, among other drugs, according to the complaint.
Miller by text, according to the complaint.Įarly on Sept. Miller had also previously obtained drugs, responded to Mr.
Miller texted a madam from whom he had previously procured drugs, according to the complaint, which noted that she sent a sex worker to his residence in Studio City, Calif., Investigators believe that the rapper died after snorting the counterfeit pills. Miller had suffered an accidental fatal overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner later determined that Mr. Miller, who was born Malcolm James McCormick, had just released his fifth full-length album, “Swimming,” when he died. Pettit delivered the 26-year-old rapper counterfeit oxycodone that contained fentanyl, a synthetic opiate estimated to be over 50 times as powerful as heroin, according to the complaint. But, instead of providing genuine oxycodone, Mr. Miller with oxycodone pills, cocaine and Xanax, according to the criminal complaint filed in United States District Court in Los Angeles. The suspect, Cameron James Pettit, 28, agreed to supply Mr. A Hollywood Hills man has been charged with selling the rapper Mac Miller counterfeit drugs containing fentanyl two days before the artist died of a drug overdose last September, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
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