On Wednesday, federal prosecutors
charged a 28-year-old man named Cameron James Pettit in connection with the death of rapper and producer Mac Miller last year.
Pettit's arrest comes almost exactly a year after
Miller's death on Sept. 7, 2018. The Los Angeles coroner's report, which was released last November, said that he died from an
accidental overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol.
Pettit, who was arrested Wednesday morning in Hollywood Hills, is charged with allegedly supplying Miller with fake oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl, as well as allegedly giving him cocaine and Xanax, two days before his death.
Prosecutors called Pettit's arrest part of a larger struggle against opioid abuse. "Fentanyl disguised as a genuine pharmaceutical is a killer," said U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna in a press release. "Drugs laced with cheap and potent fentanyl are increasingly common, and we owe it to the victims and their families to aggressively target the drug dealers that cause these overdose deaths."
The indictment includes one count of distribution of a controlled substance. If convicted, Pettit faces a sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison.
