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Ed Buck (right) with LA City Councilmember Mike Bonin and LA
County Accessor Jeffrey Prang

CALIFORNIA

Democratic donor Ed Buck charged with operating drug house after
2 men found dead in home

By ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN, HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS, JAWEED KALEEM

SEP. 18, 2019 5 AM

Prominent Democratic donor and LGBTQ political activist Ed Buck
was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house,
with prosecutors calling him a violent ****** predator who preys
on men struggling with addiction and homelessness.

Buck was charged with one count each of battery causing serious
injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug
house, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s
office. Buck is accused of injecting a 37-year-old man, who
overdosed but survived, with methamphetamine on Sept. 11.

That latest incident comes after two men were found dead in his
Laurel Avenue apartment in West Hollywood. In both cases,
African American men — Gemmel Moore, 26, and Timothy Dean, 55 —
had overdosed on methamphetamine inside. After the first death
in 2017, authorities said there was insufficient evidence to
file charges.

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“With this new evidence, I authorized the filing of criminal
charges against Ed Buck,” Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie
Lacey said in a statement, adding that she is deeply concerned
for those whose life circumstances make them vulnerable to
predators.

Prosecutors said Buck lures his victims into his home, baiting
them with drugs, money and shelter.

“From his home, in a position of power, Buck manipulates his
victims into participating in his ****** f*******,” prosecutors
wrote in court papers. “These f******* include supplying and
personally administering dangerously large doses of narcotics to
his victims.... Not deterred by the senseless deaths of Moore
and Dean, the defendant nearly killed a third victim last week.”

The latest victim, identified in court papers as Joe Doe, went
to Buck’s apartment on Sept. 4, where Buck “personally and
deliberately” administered a large dose of methamphetamine,
prosecutors said. Concerned he was suffering an overdose, the
man left the apartment to get medical help. He returned to
Buck’s apartment on Sept. 11, when Buck again injected him with
“two dangerously large” doses of methamphetamine, prosecutors
said.

Prosecutors say Buck thwarted the man’s attempts to get help.
The man eventually fled the apartment and called 911 from a gas
station. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. Sheriff’s
investigators found hundreds of photographs in Buck’s home of
men in compromising positions.

“The full scope of his consistent malicious behavior is
unknown,” prosecutors said. “It is only a matter of time before
another one of these vulnerable young men dies of an overdose.”

Buck is due in court Wednesday for his arraignment. Prosecutors
are asking that his bail be set at $4 million. If convicted as
charged, he faces up to five years and eight months in state
prison.

Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, could not be immediately
reached for comment.

In 2007, Buck unsuccessfully ran for West Hollywood City Council
as part of the Save West Hollywood campaign slate, a group of
candidates who pledged to stop mega-development and “take down
the ‘For Sale’ sign at City Hall.”

Steve Martin, a former councilman who ran on the slate and has
known Buck for more than a decade, said he ran into Buck — who
has rarely been seen in public since Moore’s death — in a
grocery store about three months ago.

“He just seemed really anxious to talk,” Martin said. “He
acknowledged that there were legal issues pending, so he
couldn’t say much. But he looked really healthy.… He denied any
drug use.”

Martin said Buck seemed to insinuate that his legal troubles
would be over eventually. Buck has “burned so many bridges in
the community” and it’s likely that few people are talking to
him, Martin said.

“He was leading me to believe he was going to be vindicated,”
Martin said.

In January, after Dean was found dead, the Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department said it would take another look at the
first case. The deaths sparked protests from activists who
complained authorities are not doing enough.

Los Angeles County coroner’s officials had concluded that Moore
died from an accidental methamphetamine overdose in Buck’s
apartment, which was littered with drug paraphernalia,

including 24 hypodermic needles and five glass pipes, as well as
*** toys. Paramedics found Moore n**** on a mattress in the
living room, the coroner’s report said.

They ruled Moore’s death an accident, and an initial review by
sheriff’s deputies found nothing suspicious. But in August 2017,
homicide detectives launched a new investigation after Moore’s
mother and friends questioned whether the drugs that killed him
were self-administered.

A notebook found in Moore’s possession indicated he used drugs
with someone whose name is redacted in the coroner’s report. The
Times has reviewed pages of that journal, in which Moore
purportedly wrote about using crystal methamphetamine.

“Ed Buck is the one to thank,” Moore appears to have written.
“He gave me my first injection of chrystal [sic] meth.”

Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon of Texas, has questioned whether
Buck’s ties to elected officials and differences in race and
class influenced the investigation. Buck, who is 65 and white,
is a longtime political donor, onetime West Hollywood City
Council candidate and a well-known figure in LGBTQ political
circles. Moore had been homeless and had worked as an escort.

In February, Nixon filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Buck,
alleging he was a drug dealer who injected her son with a fatal
dose of crystal methamphetamine.

“If the dead body of a blond-haired, blue-eyed white man was
found in the home of an older black man, he’d be lucky to even
make it to the police station alive,” Hussain Turk, an attorney
for Nixon, said in a statement at the time of the lawsuit’s
filing.

About 9 p.m. Tuesday, about a dozen onlookers gathered across
the street from Buck’s apartment building, as police redirected
cars on the blocked street. It was a quiet scene, with no
protest chants or signs.

“Today is like a celebration for us,” said Jasmyne Cannick as
she spoke to those gathered.

Cannick, a political consultant and spokeswoman for Moore’s
mother, said she was giving a speech in Leimert Park on Tuesday
evening when she started getting calls from Buck’s neighbors
saying he was being arrested.

She pulled up to Buck’s West Hollywood apartment building just
as a police car was driving away.

Cannick has said she believed Buck got special treatment because
of his political activism and fundraising for Democratic
candidates, a charge officials have denied, and because he was
white and Moore and Dean were black.

“I feel vindicated for all the people who said it was never
going to happen,” she said. “I feel really good for all the
young men he took advantage of because they didn’t feel like
anyone took them seriously, like their lives weren’t important
enough for anyone to really care about.”

Cannick said she called Moore’s mother and Dean’s sister to tell
them about the arrest, and “we were all crying.”

“We’re just completely ecstatic,” she said. “Black gay men’s
lives matter. The whole black LGBT community is going to be
celebrating this evening because our lives matter, and people
need to know that. Even if we’re *** workers, even if we’re on
drugs, even if we’re homeless, we’re still part of the black
community, still part of the LGBT community.”

Yellow police tape blocked the entrance to Buck’s apartment in
the 1200 block of North Laurel Avenue. Buck’s neighbors from the
building stood outside, watching the scene unfold.

“I heard loud noises of police, like it was someone fighting,
and usually our neighbors don’t fight,” said Celina Salazar, who
was there as he was arrested.

Her partner, Caroline Serra, was parking in the underground
garage after shopping for groceries when she exited the front
garage gate and was confronted by police who told her to avoid
the building.

“Then I came out and saw Ed Buck in handcuffs,” Serra said.

Times staff writer Jaclyn Cosgrove contributed to this report.

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