College student forgotten in DEA cell for four days without food, water, toilet

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http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...cell-for-four-days-without-food-water/1228134

SAN DIEGO — A California engineering student says he was left alone in a federal holding cell for four days with no food or water, apparently forgotten by the federal drug agents who detained him.

Daniel Chong, a senior at the University of California at San Diego, said he was swept up in a Drug Enforcement Administration raid near campus and was taken to a detention facility. After questioning, he was told he would be released.

Then the DEA left him locked inside a 5-by-10-foot windowless cell.

He screamed. He kicked madly at the door. He cried like a baby......

"It's impossible to describe hallucinations like these," he said. "I was completely insane."

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Chong was rushed to a nearby hospital where he spent five more days recovering from problems including kidney failure, dehydration and a perforated esophagus that was the result of swallowing the broken glass.

He was not charged with any crimes.
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Chong's attorneys filed a $20 million claim against the DEA on Wednesday, saying his treatment constitutes torture under U.S. and international law.


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drip~drop said:

Where'd the glass come from?I heard he had meth in the room and ate some of that. I'll say imo cuz that was in another article I read but can't remember where.
That would have made me crazy too. I hope Mr. Chong gets compensated for the DEA's HUGE mistake.

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Days crawled by. No food. No water. No bathroom. He remembers biting his eyeglasses and using the broken shards to scrawl a note onto his left arm.

"Sorry Mom," he tried to write. He stopped after the "S,'' too weak to continue...............

In utter confusion, Chong said, he ate some of the broken glass he had used to slice his arm. He also ingested a white powdery substance the DEA said had been left in the cell inadvertently.

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