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   Mr. Buck finally faced consequences this week as prosecutors   
   charged him with operating a drug house and accused him of being   
   a predator who targeted vulnerable men.   
      
   When the lifeless body of a 26-year-old man was found two years   
   ago in the apartment of Ed Buck, a small-time Democratic donor   
   and political activist, the authorities described it as an   
   accidental overdose. Then, in January, a 55-year-old fashion   
   consultant died in Mr. Buck’s home in exactly the same way. Once   
   again, he faced no charges.   
      
   On Tuesday, after a third man survived a methamphetamine   
   overdose in the apartment, Mr. Buck was finally arrested and   
   hauled away in the back of a police car.   
      
   The sordid facts — and Mr. Buck’s seeming double life — are the   
   stuff of crime novels. The West Hollywood apartment building   
   where Mr. Buck lived, with its simple white facade, dirty with   
   stains dripping from air-conditioners, would be easy to miss on   
   another day, the kind of spot that the novelist Raymond Chandler   
   once described as a good place to have bad habits.   
      
   Prosecutors have charged Mr. Buck with operating a drug house,   
   administering methamphetamines and battery and accused him of   
   being a “violent, dangerous sexual predator” who targeted   
   vulnerable men. “Buck is clearly a predator with no regard for   
   human life,” the court documents said.   
      
   More repercussions may come. The charges relate only to the   
   latest victim, a 37-year-old who fled the apartment after an   
   encounter last week with Mr. Buck. Local supporters and the   
   families of the men who died said they were thankful after the   
   charges were filed.   
      
   “That’s what we have been pushing for, for the last two years   
   and 50-something days,” said Hussain Turk, a civil rights lawyer   
   who represents one of the family members. “We don’t want another   
   death. We don’t want another overdose.”   
      
   The first victim, Gemmel Moore, 26, died in July 2017 and   
   Timothy Dean, 55, died in January. The identity of the third has   
   not been released; he was referred to as “Joe Doe” in court   
   documents.   
      
   Mr. Buck faces up to five years and eight months in prison if he   
   is convicted of the current charges.   
      
   Court documents describe how Mr. Buck would lure men to his   
   apartment and administer large doses of narcotics to manipulate   
   his victims to participate in sex acts.   
      
   Mr. Moore was found dead in Mr. Buck’s apartment surrounded by   
   sex toys and 24 hypodermic needles, according to court records.   
   In a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in February, LaTisha Nixon,   
   the mother of Mr. Moore, claimed that Mr. Buck bought a plane   
   ticket for her son to travel from Houston. After Mr. Moore   
   arrived in Los Angeles, Mr. Buck injected him with crystal   
   methamphetamine, according to the lawsuit. It was a drug Ms.   
   Nixon said her son had never used.   
      
   Families of the two men who died in his apartment have accused   
   Mr. Buck, who is white, of preying upon black gay men. Ms. Nixon   
   said in the lawsuit that Mr. Buck had a “well-documented history   
   of isolating black men for predatory sexual encounters.” Crowds   
   of protesters, too, have gathered outside Mr. Buck’s home this   
   year to demand justice for the men.   
      
   “We know that, with the arrest of Ed Buck, that the life   
   expectancy of black gay men in L.A. County has substantially   
   increased,” Jasmyne Cannick, an activist and spokeswoman for the   
   families of the victims, said on Wednesday.   
      
   A lawyer for Mr. Buck, Seymour I. Amster, could not be reached,   
   but he has previously denied that Mr. Buck had any role in the   
   two deaths.   
      
   In the most recent case, “Joe Doe” visited Mr. Buck’s apartment   
   at least two times. On Sept. 4, he sought medical attention   
   after he was injected with methamphetamine. A week later he   
   returned to the apartment where, the Los Angeles County District   
   Attorney’s Office said, Mr. Buck again injected the 37-year-old   
   man with methamphetamine. He then fled and called 911.   
      
   In West Hollywood, Mr. Buck was a recognizable figure, a former   
   model who became a fixture in Los Angeles Democratic political   
   circles and who focused on animal rights. In 2007, he made an   
   unsuccessful bid for West Hollywood City Council.   
      
   Mr. Buck was not a major Democratic donor but he handed out tens   
   of thousands of dollars to California Democrats, including   
   Representatives Ted Lieu, Adam B. Schiff, Pete Aguilar, Jerry   
   McNerney and Jimmy Gomez. One recipient of larger gifts was   
   Kyrsten Sinema, a congresswoman at the time who is now an   
      
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