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The defense contends all the men were at Buck's apartment under their own will and Moore and Dean did not die from methamphetamine. One neighbor reported to investigators that Buck told him he was a social worker helping the men. Although Dean died in January , it wasn't until September of that year that Buck was arrested after a man overdosed twice in one week.

He moved in with Buck for part of the summer of and said Buck injected him with meth on nearly a daily basis for five weeks, according to court documents. Prosecutors claim Buck provided fatal doses of methamphetamine to Moore and Dean. Tuesday, July 13, When Buck refused, Brown said he left the apartment and called from a nearby gas station and was taken to a hospital.

Jasmyne Cannick, a political strategist who has helped lead the charge to bring Buck to justice, and others had previously said that Buck escaped prosecution because of wealth, political ties and race. When Buck approached him with a buzzing power saw, the man said a surge of adrenaline drove him to get to his feet and escape.

The year-old has pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges that could put him in prison for life if he's convicted. By Josh Haskell. Ed Buck, once a fixture of West Hollywood’s political scene, was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for drug and sex crimes that included providing lethal doses of methamphetamine to.

It's a bittersweet day but it's also a good day because we're here for justice. Log Out. Democratic donor Ed Buck's trial centers on alleged injection fetish. Buck told the man to leave, but he couldn't move. A federal jury has convicted the wealthy political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine, causing two deaths and other overdoses.

Some told investigators they believe Buck gave them the powerful sedative known as the date-rape drug, which left them unconscious. Democratic megadonor Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday for fatally injecting two gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex at his West Hollywood apartment.

The arrest of Buck in marked a turning point for activists who rallied outside his West Hollywood apartment and pressured law enforcement to act after Gemmel Moore, 26, died on his floor in Even after Timothy Dean, 55, died 18 months later, it took another nine months and the near-death of another overdose victim before Buck was finally arrested in September Family members of Moore and Dean spoke ahead of Tuesday's proceedings, which mostly consisted of the jury selection.

Creary II. Neighbors are expected to testify to a constant flow of men coming and going from Buck's apartment that only ebbed after the deaths before eventually picking back up. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Welcome, Mickey. Once that process is complete, the trial is expected to last 10 days.

Many were destitute drug users who often worked as prostitutes to support their habit. Several men are expected to testify about Buck's "compulsion to pump drugs into others regardless of the consequences," prosecutors said. Nearly two years after he was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors, Buck is going on trial for providing the fatal doses to those two men, running a drug den and persuading others to travel for prostitution.

Prosecutors said Brown was lucky to survive. That alleged victim, Dane Brown, told investigators he had been living in a hotel on Skid Row when he met Buck on Adam4Adam, a gay dating and escort site. Manage MyDisney Account. Buck, a wealthy white man who was active in gay and animal rights issues, exploited vulnerable men - most of them Black - paying them to come to his home to use drugs and engage in sex play, prosecutors said.

The second time Brown overdosed, he asked Buck to call an ambulance. Buck, 67, a big dollar donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for providing fatal doses of. He is expected to testify at trial, providing a first-hand account that neither Moore nor Dean lived to tell.