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   Democratic Party fundraiser and activist Ed Buck was ordered   
   Thursday to remain jailed pending his next federal court   
   appearance on the charge of providing the methamphetamine that   
   caused the overdose death of a man inside Buck’s West Hollywood   
   apartment in July 2017.   
      
   At a brief detention hearing in Los Angeles federal court, Buck   
   did not contest the government’s motion asking that he remain in   
   custody.   
      
   “I don’t see anything that would alleviate danger,” U.S.   
   Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Walsh said, indicating that Buck   
   presents a danger to the community, one of the primary issues   
   discussed at federal detention hearings.   
      
   Buck is due back in federal court in downtown Los Angeles for   
   arraignment Oct. 10.   
      
   Buck also faces state charges of running a drug den in his West   
   Hollywood apartment, but the federal case will be handled first.   
      
   Buck, 65, was charged last week with a single count of   
   distribution of methamphetamine resulting in the death of Gemmel   
   Moore, who died July 27, 2017, of an overdose in Buck’s   
   apartment at 1234 N. Laurel Ave. After complaints over several   
   years from other residents, the owners of that building have   
   recently filed an eviction notice against Buck.   
      
   Los Angeles County prosecutors had earlier declined to file any   
   state charges against Buck over Moore’s death, citing   
   insufficient evidence.   
      
   Moore, 26, was the first of two men to die at Buck’s apartment   
   in less than 18 months. He was found dead of a crystal   
   methamphetamine overdose, and the coroner ruled the death   
   accidental. On Jan. 7 of this year, a second man died of   
   methamphetamine toxicity at Buck’s home. The death of Timothy   
   Dean, 55, of West Hollywood, was also ruled accidental. County   
   prosecutors said that case remains under review.   
      
   Buck was not arrested until Sept. 17, when he was charged by the   
   District Attorney’s Office over a near-fatal overdose in his   
   apartment that occurred Sept. 11. Buck allegedly injected a man   
   with “two dangerously large doses” of methamphetamine at Buck’s   
   apartment. He allegedly administering a “dangerously large dose   
   of methamphetamine” to the same man one week earlier, according   
   to a bail memorandum filed by Deputy District Attorney Cynthia   
   Barnes.   
      
   Buck allegedly refused to render aid to the man, who eventually   
   fled from the apartment and called 911 from a nearby gas   
   station, according to the document. The 37-year-old man suffered   
   an overdose but survived, authorities said.   
      
   Buck was charged in Superior Court with one felony count each of   
   battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine   
   and maintaining a drug house. He appeared briefly in a downtown   
   Los Angeles courtroom, but his arraignment was delayed until   
   Oct. 11.   
      
   Buck was ordered to remain jailed in lieu of $4 million bail on   
   the state charges, but was then transferred to federal custody.   
   The state charges against Buck carry a possible prison sentence   
   of five years and eight months, but the federal charge could   
   land him behind bars for a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of   
   life without parole.   
      
   Federal prosecutors said Buck has a history of injecting men   
   with drugs and paying them for sexual activity. They contend   
   Buck flew Moore to Los Angeles and gave him drugs and money in   
   exchange for sex.   
      
   U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said investigators have identified 10   
   other “victims” — including Dean, who died in Buck’s apartment   
   in January. The other nine victims all said Buck administered   
   drugs to them or strongly encouraged them to do so, and paid   
   them for sex, Hanna said.   
      
   According to a federal court affidavit, the man who nearly   
   overdosed in Buck’s apartment — leading to the state charges —   
   told investigators that “Buck solicited him to engage in sexual   
   activities and distributed methamphetamine to him nearly every   
   day during an approximately one-month period from on or about   
   July 29, 2019, to on or about September 6, 2019.” The man said   
   Buck “intravenously injected methamphetamine” into him on both   
   Sept. 4 and Sept. 11, causing him “to suffer overdose effects,   
   requiring him to be transported to the hospital.”   
      
   Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, has denied that his client —   
   who allegedly was present when the fatal overdoses occurred in   
   his apartment — had any involvement in either death.   
      
   Buck, a former Republican who first made headlines in the 1980s   
   when he spearheaded a recall drive against Arizona Gov. Evan   
   Mecham, has been a frequent donor to Democratic candidates and   
      
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