Democratic donor Ed Buck will be charged in federal court with a drug trafficking offense, a law enforcement source says
Buck was in court on Thursday to face felony charges of maintaining a drug house, battery causing serious injury and administering methamphetamine. His arraignment for those charges was postponed until October 11.Buck is accused of injecting a 37-year-old man with methamphetamine at his West Hollywood apartment on September 11, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. The man suffered a nonfatal overdose.
Buck's attorney, Seymour Amster, told reporters at the courthouse that he was just made aware of the federal charges and didn't have any additional details. Read More"This is a case that there have been a lot of activists' interaction on it, thinking that charges should have been brought before there were," Amster said.
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