Post by robeiae on Sept 18, 2019 7:12:14 GMT -5
www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-buck-prominent-democratic-donor-charged-running-drug-den-two-men-fatally-overdosed/
This isn't the first time Buck has been "under the suspicion" (to borrow from Clouseau). From Wikipedia:
But he's a politically connected douche, so he's been able to skate away.
And my answer to the question in the thread title is "probably not."
A West Hollywood man who has made large donations to the Democratic Party was charged Tuesday with running a drug house out of his apartment, where two men died of overdoses. Ed Buck was also charged with providing methamphetamine to a 37-year-old man who suffered an overdose last week, CBS Los Angeles reports.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said Buck, 65, was charged with one felony count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said Buck, 65, was charged with one felony count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house.
This isn't the first time Buck has been "under the suspicion" (to borrow from Clouseau). From Wikipedia:
On July 27, 2017, a young African American man named Gemmel Moore died in Buck's apartment.[11][12][13] Paramedics found Moore, who had worked as an escort, naked on a mattress in the living room with a "male pornography movie playing on the television", according to a Los Angeles County coroner's report.[13] A spokesman for the coroner's office, Ed Winter, said Buck was inside his Laurel Avenue home at the time of Moore's death and that drug paraphernalia was recovered from the scene.[14] Police found sex toys, syringes, and "clear plastic bags with suspected methamphetamine in a tool box roll-cabinet in the living room", 24 syringes with brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear plastic bags with white powdery residue, and a clear plastic bag with a "piece of crystal-like substance".[13] The death was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and prosecutors declined to charge Buck on July 26, 2018.[15]
On January 7, 2019, another African American man, 55-year-old Timothy Michael Dean, died at Buck's home.[16] Dean, originally from Tampa, Florida, had lived in West Hollywood for two decades and had acted in pornographic films.
Since the death of Gemmel Moore, multiple reports have indicated that Buck had a history of luring young, black gay men to his apartment, where he would inject them with crystal methamphetamine for sexual gratification. Jasmyne Cannick, a local writer, activist, and political candidate who investigated Gemmel Moore's death, predicted on Twitter on July 28, 2018, that any further deaths at Ed's residence would be the responsibility of the Los Angeles County District Attorney for failing to bring charges.[17]
On January 7, 2019, another African American man, 55-year-old Timothy Michael Dean, died at Buck's home.[16] Dean, originally from Tampa, Florida, had lived in West Hollywood for two decades and had acted in pornographic films.
Since the death of Gemmel Moore, multiple reports have indicated that Buck had a history of luring young, black gay men to his apartment, where he would inject them with crystal methamphetamine for sexual gratification. Jasmyne Cannick, a local writer, activist, and political candidate who investigated Gemmel Moore's death, predicted on Twitter on July 28, 2018, that any further deaths at Ed's residence would be the responsibility of the Los Angeles County District Attorney for failing to bring charges.[17]
And my answer to the question in the thread title is "probably not."
