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Man Charged By Federal Prosecutors In Connection With Mac Miller's Death

Cameron James Pettit was arrested Wednesday morning. He was charged by federal prosecutors with supplying counterfeit oxycodone to Mac Miller shortly before the rapper's death.

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a 28-year-old man named Cameron James Pettit in connection with the death of rapper and producer Mac Miller last year.

Pettit's arrest comes almost exactly a year on Sept. 7, 2018. The Los Angeles coroner's report, which was released last November, said that he died from an of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol.

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