One of the men who admitted to having supplied rapper Mac Miller with the fentanyl-laced pills that led to his fatal overdose has been sentence to almost 11 years in prison.
Ryan Michael Reavis, 39, admitted in 2019 that he acted as a middle man in the deals which provided the late rapper with counterfeit oxycodone.
Rapper Miller, whose real name was Malcolm James Myers McCormick, died aged just 26 in September 2018.
Reavis still maintains he didn't know the pills were laced.
He has now been sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison. The sentence is slightly more than probation officers recommended but is still lower then the prosecutors' request of a 12-and-a-half years behind bars.
His sentence was read out by the United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II after Miller's mum, Karen Meyers, had a heartbreaking statement read out by prosecutors.
According to Rolling Stone, she had said: "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.
"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."
She went on to reminisce about her son's laugh, calling it "infectious and bright" and spoke about how his music "spoke to many people all over the world".
The rapper's cause of death was ruled as a lethal combination of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner and Coroner.
In a statement to Los Angeles Times, Reavis’ attorney, Cori Ferrentino, said the case was "very tragic and difficult".
She said Reavis was an addict who didn’t know the pills he had given to a codefendant had fentanyl.
"Mac Miller was loved and admired by so many," she said.
"He fought many of the same demons related to addiction that Mr. Reavis has fought his whole life. It is not lost on Mr. Reavis for one minute that he will be able to return to his family and Mac Miler will not."
Ferrentino went on to say her client would use his time in prison to "grow in his recovery" and to honour the musician's life in whatever way he can.
Reavis was the second person to plead guilty in connection with the star's death.
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