BREAKING NEWS: Prosecutors charge man in connection with Mac Miller’s death after he ‘supplied the rapper counterfeit drugs laced with fentanyl’

By Luke Kenton For Dailymail.com

Published: 19:57 BST, 4 September 2019 | Updated: 20:19 BST, 4 September 2019

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have charged a man from Hollywood Hills in connection with the death of hip-hop star Mac Miller, who was found dead from a drug overdose in his home nearly one year ago. 

Cameron James Pettit, 28, allegedly supplied Miller with counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl, according to a 42-page criminal complaint filed in the Central District of California. 

Authorities say Miller had asked Pettit to furnish him with ‘percs’, an abbreviation for percocet, which is a powerful prescription painkiller containing oxycodone. 

Two days later, 26-year-old Miller was found unresponsive in his Studio City home on September 7, 2018. 

The nature of his death was later deemed to be an accident by investigators, however they found the Grammy-nominated artist had died from a fatal cocktail of alcohol, cocaine and fentanyl. 

Investigators served search warrants at several locations and recovered a plastic bag containing pills believed to have been supplied by a prostitute who also worked as a madam. 

The drugs were later determined to be pure oxycodone, hydrocodone, amphetamine, Xanax and cocaine.

An additional delivery, allegedly made by Pettit on September 5, included counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl, cocaine and Xanax to his home.

A chain of direct Instagram messages between Pettit and his associates reacting to news of the rapper’s death are included within the complaint. 

‘I think I should probably not post anything …just to be smart,’ Pettit reportedly wrote in one of the texts, hours after police found Miller’s lifeless body.

Asked in another message how he was coping with the news, Pettit responded: ‘I am not great … Most likely I will die in jail.’ 

 

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