complaint said.

In March 2019 — just two months after Dean was found dead in Buck’s home — another man said Buck also offered him cash and marijuana in exchange for sex. After taking a drink that Buck described as vodka, the man said, he lost consciousness. When he awoke, Buck was injecting him with a syringe and had placed metal clamps on his body, according to the complaint.

One man, who told investigators Buck had contacted him on the website Adam4Adam, said he injected himself with what Buck told him was methamphetamine during a December 2018 encounter at Buck’s West Hollywood apartment. The drug rendered him immobile, the man told investigators, and he laid on the floor of Buck’s apartment for 6 to 7 hours. Buck grew frustrated andat one point wanted him to leave, the man said, but he couldn’t move.


Then Buck brought out the saw, he said.

Buck “obtained a power saw from a closet, turned it on and approached” the man, the complaint says.

A surge of adrenaline snapped him out of paralysis, he told investigators four months later. Buck refused to pay him but eventually sent him money through Zelle, a banking application, according to the complaint.

The man involved in the most recent case said he had lived with Buck since late July and claimed they used drugs and had sex nearly every day for more than a month, according to the complaint.


The decision not to bring charges against Buck last year served as a flashpoint in the city’s black and LGBTQ communities, with