One of Three Men Charged in Death of Mac Miller Sentenced to Almost 11 Years in Prison
Nearly four years after the rapper died from fentanyl-laced pills.
Ryan Michael Reavis, one of the three men charged in the September 2018 death of Mac Miller, has been sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison.
Rolling Stone reports that Reavis, 39, referred to himself as the middle man who gave another drug dealer the fentanyl-laced oxycodone pills that killed the rapper. He also previously claimed that he was unaware that the pills he dealt were the ones that killed Miller up until he was arrested by law enforcement in September 2019. “This is not just a regular drug case. Somebody died, and a family is never going to get their son back. My family would be wrecked if it was me. They’d never be all right, never truly get over it. I think about that all the time. And I know that whatever happens today, I’m the lucky one because my family is here and I’m here and I’ll be with them again. I feel terrible. This is not who I am,” he told the court. “My perspective has changed. My heart has changed.” He was also sentenced to an additional three years of supervised release with drug testing.
His nearly 11-year sentence is a little heavier than the recommendation of probation officials, but is also less than the 12 and a half years prosecutors were seeking. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II after prosecutors read the statement from Miller’s mom, Karen Meyers. “My life went dark the moment Malcolm left his world. Malcolm was my person, more than a son. We had a bond and kinship that was deep and special and irreplaceable. We spoke nearly every day about everything – his life, plans, music, dreams,” the statement read. It continued, “He would never knowingly take a pill with fentanyl, ever. He wanted to live and was excited about the future. The hole in my heart will always be there.”
Reavis was arrested in Lake Havasu, Arizona and was found with three guns in possession including a “ghost gun,” ammunition boxes, empty prescription pads, baggies and “digital scales covered in heroin and methamphetamine residue.” Assistant US Attorney Elia Herrera said to Judge Otis that a text Reavis sent to another person in June 2019 exhibited he was still dealing pills even after the death of Miller; the conversation showed Reavis claiming that the other person connected him with a possible customer named “Jenny” was actually a man trying to purchase eight oxycodone pills, also known as “blues”:
“So ‘Jenny’ turned out to be a guy named jack that says he [sic] Jenny’s boyfriend. It was him I was talking to the entire time. No heads up, that shit needs to be discussed before hand so I kno [sic] I’m not talking to a cop . . . People have been dying from fake blues left and right, you better believe law enforcement is using informants and undercover[s] to buy them on the street do [sic] they can start putting ppl in prison for life for selling fake pills.”
“Defendant knew that people were dying from fake blues left and right. He knew that people were being put away in prison for life for dealing them. Defendant was not worried about people dying left and right. He was worried about getting caught,” Herrera said.
The two other men charged in the death of Miller are 48-year-old Stephen Andrew Walter — who was sentenced to 17 years in prison last October with a plea deal — the man who admitted that he supplied the laced pills to Reavis, and 30-year-old Cameron James Pettit, who allegedly gave Miller the laced pills and is currently still in court.
Elsewhere in music, Pusha T announced the release date of It’s Almost Dry.
