Dem Donor Ed Buck Arrested After 3rd Overdose Charged With Operating West Hollywood Drug House

(KTLA 5) Steve Ganey and John Fenoglio September 17 2019 8:06 PM Ed Buck a prominent Democratic donor and political activist was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house and providing methamphetamine to a 37-year-old man who suffered an overdose at Bucks West Hollywood apartment last week the Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office said. Buck is charged with three counts of battery causing serious injury administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house officials said in a news release. Prosecutors said Buck injected the victim with methamphetamine at his apartment in the 1200 block of Laurel Avenue in West Hollywood on Sept. 11. The victim suffered an overdose but survived. Buck is known as an animal-rights and LGBTQ activist who has donated to Democratic politicians and once ran for West Hollywood City Council however past incidents strikingly similar to Wednesdays overdose have put Buck at the center of investigations. This most recent incident marks the third time a man suffered a methamphetamine overdose at Bucks West Hollywood apartment. The previous two victims did not survive. The first man 26-year-old Gemmel Moore died on July 27 2017. Prosecutors cited insufficient evidence in declining to press charges against Buck in connection with Moores death which was ruled an accidental methamphetamine overdose. A second man 55-year-old Timothy Dean died of methamphetamine and alcohol toxicity on Jan. 7. Deans autopsy report said he died at least 15 minutes before anyone called 911. That death was also ruled accidental.