Man charged with selling fentanyl-laced pills to Mac Miller

Mac Miller.
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A man has been arrested for selling Mac Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl two days before he overdosed.

On Wednesday, 28-year-old Cameron James Pettit was hit with federal charges for selling "counterfeit pharmaceutical narcotics containing fentanyl to Mac Miller two days before the hip-hop artist died of a drug overdose," a criminal complaint reads. Pettit is charged with one count of distribution of a controlled substance and faces up to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California detailed.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.