Student left in DEA cell to get $4 million from US

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Justice Department will pay $4.1 million to a California college student left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for four days without food or water last year, two people familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Daniel Chong, 23, was detained in an April 2012 drug raid in San Diego and left in the 5-by-10-foot windowless holding cell. He said he drank his own urine to stay alive and tried to write a farewell message to his mother with his own blood.

The people familiar with the case spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the settlement before it was announced Tuesday morning at a news conference.

Chong, who was an engineering student at University of California, San Diego, was at a friend's house in April 2012 when a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raid netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons. Chong and eight others were taken into custody.

Agents told Chong he would not be charged and had him wait in the cell at DEA offices in San Diego. The door did not reopen for four days, when agents found him severely dehydrated and covered in his own feces.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130730/US--Suspect.Forgotten/

[Darnell 8,479]

Wow!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Chong, who was an engineering student at University of California, San Diego, was at a friend's house in April 2012 when a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raid netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons. Chong and eight others were taken into custody.

Chong busted for drugs?

[Darnell 8,479]

Perhaps one of Chong's distant nephews? Tommie Chong was busted about MJ, even put together a reality docu-drama about it.

Since this was for 18 thousand tabs of extasy (sp?), though - perhaps T. Chong isn't even involved?

Edited August 1, 2013 by Darnell