The 72-year-old drug dealer connected to the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams received a 2-1/2-year prison sentence Tuesday.

Carlos Macci, one of the four men connected to the death of The Wire star, was sentenced to a 30-month prison sentence with an additional three years of supervised release, according to a report.

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The first year of the supervised release will take place within a facility specializing in inpatient drug treatment, the report noted.

Williams, 54, died after he consumed fentanyl-laced heroin in September 2021, and the actor had bought the drugs from an associate of Macci's Brooklyn, New York, crew.

Footage captured the exchange and was used by prosecutors in court proceedings.

The four men, including Macci, continued to sell their product on the street even after Williams's death had been made public, according to the report.

The 72-year-old pleaded guilty in April to narcotic possession and distribution.

His attorney, Benjamin Zeman, had requested his client's sentence be that of time served due to Macci's age and background.

"Prior to his involvement in this crime, Carlos Macci had lived an unstable and aimless, drug-fueled life," Zeman stated. "He has been as much of a victim of the failed war on drugs as anyone. But we must also try to imagine an end of his story that is shrouded in hope."

Prosecutors wanted a sentence to "reflect the seriousness of the offense" and "deter future criminal conduct of this defendant and others who could sell deadly narcotics in the community."

Co-creator of The Wire David Simon submitted a letter to the court seeking mercy for Macci.

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"No possible good can come from incarcerating a (72)-year-old soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction and who has not engaged in street-level sales of narcotics with ambitions of success and profit but rather as someone caught up in the diaspora of addiction himself," Simon wrote.

"Michael would look at Mr. Macci and hope against hope that this moment in which he finds himself might prove redemptive, that his remaining years might amount to something more, and that by the grace of love and leniency, something humane and worthy might be rescued from the tragedy."