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Los Angeles — A West Hollywood man who has made large donations
to the Democratic Party was charged Tuesday with running a drug
house out of his apartment, where two men died of overdoses. Ed
Buck was also charged with providing methamphetamine to a 37-
year-old man who suffered an overdose last week, CBS Los Angeles
reports.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said Buck, 65, was
charged with one felony count each of battery causing serious
injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug
house.

He was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday.

According to the D.A.'s office, Buck was accused of injecting
the victim with methamphetamine at Buck's apartment. The man
survived.

Buck, who was arrested at his home Tuesday, should be held on $4
million bail because he is a "violent, dangerous sexual
predator" who "mainly preys on men made vulnerable by addiction
and homelessness," prosecutors said in a motion.

Buck took advantage of his position of power and offered drugs,
money and shelter to mainly addicted and homeless men in
exchange for participating in sexual fetishes, including a
fetish that involved administering dangerous doses of drugs, the
motion said.

Buck "has no regard for human life," the motion added.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a
statement that he remains "deeply concerned for the safety of
people whose life circumstances may make them more vulnerable to
criminal predators," CBS L.A. notes. "With this new evidence, I
authorized the filing of criminal charges against Ed Buck."

Buck's attorney told CBS L.A. he would fight the charges against
his client "vigorously."

Buck, 65, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to California
candidates, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, and is well known in
LGBTQ political circles.

Buck came under investigation in January after 55-year-old
Timothy Dean was found dead of an accidental methamphetamine
overdose in his apartment. It was the second such death in two
years, following the July 2017 death of Gemmel Moore, 26.

Both men were black. Buck, who is white, was not charged and
critics later questioned if wealth, race or political ties
influenced the investigations.

They are continuing, county district attorney's spokesman Greg
Risling said.

A lawyer who said he talked with family members of Moore and
Dean told CBS L.A. the family members were relieved and grateful
that Buck was behind bars.

"It's unfortunate that it's taken a third overdose for the (Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department) to finally act," Hussain
Turk, the attorney for Moore's family said. "We believe that the
third overdose could have been avoided. We believe that the
death of Timothy Dean could have also been avoided had they
taken the death of Gemmel Moore seriously."

Buck's attorney had said Dean came to Buck's home under the
influence and didn't ingest any drugs while there.

In their bail motion, however, prosecutors specifically blamed
Buck's actions for the two deaths and they alleged he personally
gave a dangerous dose of methamphetamine to a man who survived
an overdose earlier this month.

On Sept. 11, the man returned and Buck injected him with two
more dangerous doses, refused to help him and "thwarted" his
efforts to get help until the man fled the apartment and called
911 from a gas station, prosecutors alleged.

"His deadly behavior has not stopped," prosecutors contended.

Buck's "predatory acts and willful disregard for human life must
be stopped before another life is lost," their motion read.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-buck-prominent-democratic-donor- charged-running-drug-den-two-men-fatally-overdosed/

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