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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.   
      
   CALIFORNIAMust Reads: Who is Ed Buck? The erratic life of the   
   Democratic donor in whose home two dead men have been foundJan.   
   18, 2019   
      
   “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   
      
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