One of the three men charged with selling the drugs that killed rapper Mac Miller has been released from federal prison, TMZ has learned.
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00:00Three people were charged and convicted, we believed, in Mac Miller's death.
00:06But one of the guys is already out of jail, five years after his arrest.
00:11He's released from prison. His name is Cameron James Pettit.
00:14What's odd about that is we know that the other two guys who were arrested and convicted,
00:19they pled guilty, actually. They got 17 years and 11 years.
00:24So why is Cameron Pettit out after just five years?
00:28The Federal Bureau of Prisons said that he got out last month, October 11th.
00:34What they haven't said is where he's gone, or explained why he was released after just five years.
00:41It is a little weird. We checked the court records and basically he pled not guilty.
00:46That's the last thing that's showing up in the courts.
00:50And then it was sealed, so we don't really know exactly what happened.
00:52We reached out to...
00:53We don't know what his sentence was.
00:55Exactly. We don't know what his sentence was.
00:57I mean, Harvey, obviously you've been covering stuff like this for a while.
01:00This makes me think that this guy probably took a deal and maybe gave up the other two guys.
01:06And that's why it's sealed.
01:07I don't know. It's weird. We've reached out to his attorney, who hasn't got back to us.
01:11But it's obviously interesting timing as well, just because just this week,
01:14they announced Mac Miller would be releasing another album for him in January.
01:18So all the fans are talking about him.
01:20And then this news breaks that he gets out.
01:23I have been a lawyer for a long, long time.
01:25And I'm not saying I know everything about this,
01:28but I've never heard of a sentence that was under seal.
01:33That the sentence, I've never heard that was confident.
01:37I mean, by definition, a sentence is not confidential.
01:41So I don't understand why there was so much trouble figuring out what this dude was sentenced to.
01:46What he was sentenced to.
01:48And if they're keeping that sealed, keeping his conviction or sentence sealed,
01:54but then they have, why not seal the fact that he got out?
01:59I mean, then the cat's out of the bag that he's out.
02:02So if you're really trying to protect him for whatever reason, you've just said he's out.
02:06Well, because the thing is, Harvey, in federal prison,
02:08you can just search people's names and then it will show when they got released.
02:12Then why not show the sentence?
02:13If you can do that, why are you hiding the sentence if you know where the guy is?
02:18If you're really trying to protect him, that's what just doesn't make sense.
02:21I have never heard of a sentence under seal.
02:25It just never, ever, other than juvenile, other than juvenile.
02:30Right, right. And this is, he's an adult.
02:33So that's not this.
02:35It is just odd after just five years.
02:39And it may be that's all he got. We don't know.
02:41Or, you know, he did 85%, which is what they do in prison.
02:44That would certainly point to him cutting some sort of deal and giving up the other two
02:48because they got 17 and 11 years and he only gets five.
02:51But here's the problem with this.
02:53What did the other two guys do?
02:55They didn't go to trial.
02:57They didn't go to trial. One of them was the actual dealer.
03:00One was the distributor.
03:03He was the guy who was supplying all the drug.
03:06I think he was the one who was either obtaining it or making the drugs.
03:09And then someone actually delivered it was just the, you know.
03:13But they didn't go to trial. They did not.
03:15So if they didn't go to trial and they pled, you know, you wouldn't need.
03:19Right. This guy didn't testify against them.
03:22Right. Something doesn't make sense there.
03:24How's it going? I'm James from Sun Valley, Idaho.
03:27Yeah, the whole situation surrounding Mac Miller's death is just so sad.
03:31And I feel like in situations like this, though, it is hard to know who's ultimately responsible.
03:36And also, Cameron is just one of three to be accused for distributing the drugs.
03:39And he did plead not guilty.
03:41So I think there needs to be more of an investigation to find out what really happened.
03:45And who knows? Maybe he's innocent.
03:46Well, he's not innocent because they had him in prison for five years.
03:49He's not innocent.