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He said he met Ed Buck through the dating website Adam4Adam.
Months later, he found himself drugged inside Buck’s apartment.
Authorities said the man was able to escape, and that was key in
arresting the Democratic donor and West Hollywood activist last
week.
But now, as national attention has focused on the Buck case, the
man who Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said “gave
us the break we needed” is without a home and facing an
uncertain future.
“I am homeless,” said the man in an interview with The Times. He
declined to be identified, and authorities have referred to him
in court records as Joe Doe.
The man, a 37-year-old Wisconsin native, said he recently got a
job but was struggling to put his life back together after the
ordeal.
He declined to detail his dealings with Buck because it’s the
subject of a criminal investigation.
But authorities said he fled Buck’s home fearing he was
suffering a methamphetamine overdose.
Buck tried to prevent him from getting medical attention,
authorities said. He was able to get to a gas station and call
911 after the Sept. 11 incident, which investigators have said
was key to bringing charges against Buck. Los Angeles County
sheriff’s officials have said that 911 call was crucial in
building the case.
Buck has been the subject of protests and demands for justice
since 2017, when a young man was found dead in his home of a
drug overdose. Early this year, a second man was found dead
inside Buck’s West Hollywood apartment.
Community activists and family and friends of the victims have
long questioned whether Buck’s political connections played a
role in the lack of law enforcement action after the first death
— an accusation authorities deny.
A 22-page federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday painted a
depraved picture of how Buck earned the grim sobriquet of “Dr.
Kevorkian” among the homeless men in West Hollywood’s Plummer
Park, less than a mile from Buck’s home.
Ten men told investigators that Buck had paid them to use drugs
and dress in skimpy underwear for his own sexual pleasure.
Several of the men claimed they lost consciousness after Buck
served them a drink, and some said they woke up to the sight of
him injecting drugs into their arms against their will,
according to the complaint.
Buck was charged Thursday with one count of distributing
methamphetamine leading to a death, according to the U.S.
attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Buck’s attorney has not
returned calls seeking comment but in the past has denied his
client did anything wrong.
In an interview, the man said he was homeless when he met Buck
but that he didn’t intend to stay with the donor.
“I didn’t have a place to stay at some point, but I never asked
to stay with him,” he said.
After he escaped from the apartment, he said he talked to
detectives. The man said he had no family in California so after
the ordeal with Buck, “I had nowhere to go,” he said.
He eventually turned to activist Jasmyne Cannick, who has been
fighting for authorities to charge Buck for two years. He said
she paid for a hotel room out of a GoFundMe account established
in the case.
“People celebrate the arrest of Ed Buck. But they left this man
homeless. He is now working but needed somewhere to live,” said
Cannick, who has been highly critical of how law enforcement
handled the Buck case. “They were all taking a bow praising him
while ignoring his well-being.”
In a statement Tuesday, the district attorney’s office said the
Sheriff’s Department had sought assistance from a community-
based organization to help Joe Doe find housing and other
services. “Last Wednesday, our office assigned a victim services
representative to assist Mr. Doe with any needs beyond what the
community-based organization could provide. While housing was
secured for Mr. Doe, he believed the location was not
geographically suitable for his needs.”
The statement added that a victim services representative from
the D.A.'s office has contacted Joe Doe to assist him further.
Buck’s behavior first came under scrutiny in July 2017 after
Gemmel Moore, who had been homeless and sometimes worked as an
escort, died of a methamphetamine overdose. Investigators
initially ruled his death accidental, but activists and Moore’s
family quickly challenged that determination. In a journal found
among Moore’s possessions, the 26-year-old Texas man blamed Buck
for his drug addiction.
“I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that,” the
journal said. “Ed Buck is the one to thank, he gave me my first
injection of chrystal meth.”
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department revisited the case,
and in 2018, investigators asked prosecutors to consider four
charges in Moore’s death: murder, voluntary manslaughter, and
furnishing and possessing drugs. Lacey declined to file a case,
citing insufficient evidence.
When a second man — Timothy Dean, 55 — died of an overdose in
Buck’s apartment in January, the Sheriff’s Department said it
would take another look at the first case.
Buck first gained political notoriety as a self-described
conservative Republican while leading a gubernatorial recall
effort in Arizona in the 1980s. But he became prominent in
California as an “in-your-face” Democratic activist and booster
of animal rights and LGBTQ causes.
In the last decade, he has donated money to all but one member
of the current West Hollywood City Council, as well as
candidates for the Los Angeles school board and California
Senate.
Joe Doe said in an interview he is hoping to pull his life back
together.
He is working on an information technology help desk, assisting
people with their computers.
“It was good to talk to people,” he said.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-24/drugged-man- who-escaped-democratic-donor-ed-bucks-house-says-hes-homeless- trying-to-move-on
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