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   LOS ANGELES (AP) - Wealthy California political donor Ed Buck   
   was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for two overdose   
   deaths in his West Hollywood apartment and charged with   
   providing methamphetamine to three other men, one of whom   
   survived two overdoses.   
      
   The indictment returned in U.S. District Court charged Buck with   
   distributing meth resulting in the deaths of Timothy Dean in   
   January and Gemmel Moore in 2017. Buck had previously been   
   charged in Moore’s death after his arrest last month.   
      
   Buck, 65, who is white and has given hundreds of thousands of   
   dollars to Democratic causes, preyed on vulnerable men, most of   
   them black, some of them homeless and addicted to drugs, and   
   pressured them to take drugs or let him inject them with   
   narcotics as part of sexual activity known as “party and play,”   
   prosecutors said.   
      
   A defense lawyer has previously said Buck denies a role in both   
   deaths. Lawyers for Buck, who is being held without bail, did   
   not immediately return emails seeking comment on the indictment.   
      
   The five-count indictment includes a charge in Dean’s death and   
   adds charges that Buck provided meth to three other men.   
      
   Details of those encounters were included in an affidavit filed   
   with a criminal complaint last month in federal court.   
      
   In one encounter, an escort who said he was paid $300 for his   
   services in December, told detectives that Buck gave him a drink   
   and he lost control of his body and passed out, according to   
   court documents. When he regained consciousness, Buck was   
   approaching him with two syringes loaded with meth and he made   
   an excuse to leave the apartment.   
      
   In a second incident that month, the same escort said Buck gave   
   him what he said was meth, but the man thought it was actually a   
   tranquilizer because he was immobilized on the floor for more   
   than six hours. Buck told the man to leave, but he couldn’t move.   
      
   Buck then became frustrated and threatened him with a buzzing   
   power saw, the man said, according to the affidavit. A surge of   
   adrenalin helped him get to his feet, retreat to the kitchen and   
   he eventually left.   
      
   Another man said he met Buck in June on Adam4Adam, a gay dating   
   and escort site, while he was living in a hotel on Skid Row in   
   Los Angeles.   
      
   The man ended up living with Buck for part of the summer and   
   said Buck injected him with meth on nearly a daily basis for   
   five weeks, according to the affidavit.   
      
   He said he overdosed Sept. 4 and 11 when Buck injected him each   
   time with two syringes of meth. On the final time, he said Buck   
   also gave him GHB, the powerful sedative often referred to as a   
   date-rape drug. He again felt he was overdosing and asked Buck   
   to call an ambulance.   
      
   When Buck refused, the man left the apartment and went to a   
   nearby gas station, where someone called an ambulance that took   
   him to the hospital.   
      
   That final encounter led to Buck’s arrest _ more than two years   
   after activists began staging rallies outside his rent-   
   controlled apartment and pressuring the local district attorney   
   to bring charges in the July 27, 2017 death of Moore, 26.   
      
   Jasmyne Cannick, a communications strategist who led the effort   
   to seek justice for Moore, said the indictment was a long time   
   in coming and that learning it had been handed down was an   
   “incredible feeling.”   
      
   “To finally see this come to a reality, it’s more than I   
   imagined,” Cannick said. “When you’re in the fight you’re not   
   thinking about the victory part because we had so many downs,   
   very little ups until quite recently. Nobody believed us, no one   
   took us seriously.”   
      
   Moore’s mother and her supporters have questioned why it took so   
   long to bring charges and have suggested Buck got favorable   
   treatment because of his status and reputation and that the   
   victims were ignored because they were gay black men, drug users   
   and often sex workers. The activists had repeatedly warned that   
   if Buck wasn’t stopped, others would die.   
      
   Five months after Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie   
   Lacey declined to bring charges in Moore’s death, Dean, 55, was   
   found dead Jan. 7 on the floor of Buck’s living room _ the same   
   place Moore died.   
      
   Dean’s sister thanked supporters, activists, federal prosecutors   
   and a detective who worked the case.   
      
   “My family is overjoyed with the news today,” Joann Campbell   
   said in a statement. “Ed Buck, you will never hurt and cause   
   harm to another family.”   
      
      
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