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Democratic Party fundraiser and activist Ed Buck was ordered
Thursday to remain jailed pending his next federal court
appearance on the charge of providing the methamphetamine that
caused the overdose death of a man inside Buck’s West Hollywood
apartment in July 2017.

At a brief detention hearing in Los Angeles federal court, Buck
did not contest the government’s motion asking that he remain in
custody.

“I don’t see anything that would alleviate danger,” U.S.
Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Walsh said, indicating that Buck
presents a danger to the community, one of the primary issues
discussed at federal detention hearings.

Buck is due back in federal court in downtown Los Angeles for
arraignment Oct. 10.

Buck also faces state charges of running a drug den in his West
Hollywood apartment, but the federal case will be handled first.

Buck, 65, was charged last week with a single count of
distribution of methamphetamine resulting in the death of Gemmel
Moore, who died July 27, 2017, of an overdose in Buck’s
apartment at 1234 N. Laurel Ave. After complaints over several
years from other residents, the owners of that building have
recently filed an eviction notice against Buck.

Los Angeles County prosecutors had earlier declined to file any
state charges against Buck over Moore’s death, citing
insufficient evidence.

Moore, 26, was the first of two men to die at Buck’s apartment
in less than 18 months. He was found dead of a crystal
methamphetamine overdose, and the coroner ruled the death
accidental. On Jan. 7 of this year, a second man died of
methamphetamine toxicity at Buck’s home. The death of Timothy
Dean, 55, of West Hollywood, was also ruled accidental. County
prosecutors said that case remains under review.

Buck was not arrested until Sept. 17, when he was charged by the
District Attorney’s Office over a near-fatal overdose in his
apartment that occurred Sept. 11. Buck allegedly injected a man
with “two dangerously large doses” of methamphetamine at Buck’s
apartment. He allegedly administering a “dangerously large dose
of methamphetamine” to the same man one week earlier, according
to a bail memorandum filed by Deputy District Attorney Cynthia
Barnes.

Buck allegedly refused to render aid to the man, who eventually
fled from the apartment and called 911 from a nearby gas
station, according to the document. The 37-year-old man suffered
an overdose but survived, authorities said.

Buck was charged in Superior Court with one felony count each of
battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine
and maintaining a drug house. He appeared briefly in a downtown
Los Angeles courtroom, but his arraignment was delayed until
Oct. 11.

Buck was ordered to remain jailed in lieu of $4 million bail on
the state charges, but was then transferred to federal custody.
The state charges against Buck carry a possible prison sentence
of five years and eight months, but the federal charge could
land him behind bars for a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of
life without parole.

Federal prosecutors said Buck has a history of injecting men
with drugs and paying them for sexual activity. They contend
Buck flew Moore to Los Angeles and gave him drugs and money in
exchange for sex.

U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said investigators have identified 10
other “victims” — including Dean, who died in Buck’s apartment
in January. The other nine victims all said Buck administered
drugs to them or strongly encouraged them to do so, and paid
them for sex, Hanna said.

According to a federal court affidavit, the man who nearly
overdosed in Buck’s apartment — leading to the state charges —
told investigators that “Buck solicited him to engage in sexual
activities and distributed methamphetamine to him nearly every
day during an approximately one-month period from on or about
July 29, 2019, to on or about September 6, 2019.” The man said
Buck “intravenously injected methamphetamine” into him on both
Sept. 4 and Sept. 11, causing him “to suffer overdose effects,
requiring him to be transported to the hospital.”

Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, has denied that his client —
who allegedly was present when the fatal overdoses occurred in
his apartment — had any involvement in either death.

Buck, a former Republican who first made headlines in the 1980s
when he spearheaded a recall drive against Arizona Gov. Evan
Mecham, has been a frequent donor to Democratic candidates and
officeholders, including all current members of the West
Hollywood City Council with the exception of Lindsey Horvath. He
has also been active in LGBTQ political circles and once ran for
the West Hollywood City Council.

https://www.wehoville.com/2019/09/26/judge-orders-ed-buck-to- remain-in-jail-citing-his-danger-to-the-community/

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