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Parents call for charges in drug death of Bobby Brown Jr
Read full article: Parents call for charges in drug death of Bobby Brown JrFILE - Bobby Brown, left, and his son Bobby Brown Jr. appear at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 26, 2016. An autopsy report says that Brown Jr. died from the combined effects of alcohol, cocaine and the opioid fentanyl. The 28-year-old was found dead in his Los Angeles home in November 2020. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES – The parents of Bobby Brown Jr., son of singer Bobby Brown, said Tuesday that they want those responsible for his accidental overdose death held responsible, and prosecutors said they are considering criminal charges. “My family continues to mourn my son’s death," Bobby Brown said in the statement.
3 charged with providing drugs that killed rapper Mac Miller
Read full article: 3 charged with providing drugs that killed rapper Mac MillerLOS ANGELES - Three men arrested during the investigation into rapper Mac Miller's deadly overdose last year have now been charged with providing the drugs that killed him, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. Cameron Pettit, 28, of West Hollywood, California; Stephen Walter, 46, of Los Angeles; and Ryan Reavis, 36, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, were previously charged with drug-related offenses. Miller, 26, died of an accidental overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl, along with cocaine and alcohol. Two days later, Miller's assistant found him dead at his Los Angeles home. In another set of messages included in the indictment, Reavis worried in a text sent in June about undercover police buying drugs.
Prosecutors charge man in connection with death of rapper Mac Miller
Read full article: Prosecutors charge man in connection with death of rapper Mac MillerMac Miller, a rapper and producer who began his rise in the music industry in his late teens, has died, his attorney David Byrnes tells the Washington Post. Federal prosecutors have charged a man in connection with the death of hip-hop artist Mac Miller, who was found dead of a drug overdose nearly a year ago, NBC News reports. Miller had asked to be furnished with "percs," an abbreviation for percocet, a prescribed painkiller containing oxycodone. Investigators, who served search warrants at multiple locations, recovered a plastic bag containing pills allegedly supplied by a prostitute and a madam. Two days earlier, Pettit delivered to Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl, cocaine and Xanax.