Democratic donor and political activist Ed Buck faces federal charges in connection with a series of drug overdoses in his West Hollywood apartment
after an unidentified man survived a methamphetamine overdose in his apartment on Sept. 11. He is accused of injecting the man with the drug at his apartment.in recent years. Gemmel Moore, 26, died in July 2017 and Timothy Dean, 55, died in January.
U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said Thursday that Buck was transferred to federal custody, where prosecutors will ask for him to be held without bail until trial. The 65-year-old donor already faces one felony count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, filed by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office earlier this week.. Buck was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, but Amster asked for a delay until next month.Both deaths were ruled as an accidental overdose of crystal methamphetamine.
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