LOS ANGELES — A man who pleaded guilty to distributing narcotics that led to the death of rapper Mac Miller has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison.
Stephen Andrew Walter, who is about 50, had agreed to a plea agreement last year to serve 17 years. But U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II rejected it and added to the sentence, saying that Walter continued to distribute dangerous substances even after Miller's death.
In the plea agreement Walter struck with federal prosecutors last October, Walter pleaded guilty to one charge of distribution of fentanyl, reducing the charge from distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.
