Local authorities have declined prosecution of a Lake Havasu City resident who has been linked to the drug overdose-related death of a recording artist in California. Ryan Reavis, 36, was arrested when authorities seized prescription pills and weapons on September 23 from the home he and his girlfriend occupied in the 1000 block of Barcelona Loop in Lake Havasu.
It was revealed that Reavis was a person of interest in the September, 2018 death of an accomplished rap star known as Mac Miller. A newly-unsealed federal indictment charges Reavis and two other California men with conspiring to distribute cocaine and oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that caused Miller’s death 13 months ago in his home in Los Angeles.
Deputy Mohave County Attorney James Schoppman said Thursday that his office conferred with federal authorities and decided to decline local charges and let them pursue the conspiracy case. U.S. Marshals removed Reavis from the Mohave County jail in Kingman on September 26, taking him into federal custody.
Reavis moved to Lake Havasu from L.A. in July and the indictment alleged that he was a middleman in the fentanyl transaction that led to Miller’s death. Also charged in the conspiracy are Cameron Pettit, 28, West Hollywood, and Stephen Walter, 46, L.A.
