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Convicted of injecting two men with fatal doses of drugs, Ed Buck will be sentenced Thursday. Prosecutors have asked a judge to send Buck to prison for life, while his lawyers have requested a sentence that would one day allow him to rejoin society.
Buck, 67, was convicted in July 2021.
Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. A federal judge on Thursday sentenced him to 30 years in prison in the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. Another man, Dane Brown, was repeatedly injected by Buck but survived and his harrowing account of being revived twice finally led to Buck’s arrest in 2019.
Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison for providing fatal doses of drugs, operating a drug den and enticing men to travel for prostitution.
Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine.