DEA agents left student in cell for 5 days without food or water, barely punished
Well, his name was Chong, right? Just had to be Cheech's old buddy. Oh wait--that was Tommy Chong.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/05/1382696/-DEA-agents-left-student-in-cell-for-5-days-without-food-or-water-barely-punished
The LA Times is reporting on Daniel Chong, a 23-year-old UC San Diego engineering student who was arrested in part of a 2012 DEA "sweep" of his friend's house. He had gone to his friend's house to smoke marijuana.
After an interrogation, he was told he would be released.
But the agents responsible forgot about him, according to a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General report last summer, leaving him to drink his own urine to stave off dehydration.
Mr. Chong was left, handcuffed behind his back, in a windowless cell with no bathroom.
Midway through the ordeal someone turned off the light in his cell, leaving him in darkness.
When he was finally discovered he was delirious, with serious respiratory and breathing problems. He was hospitalized for four days, and he and his lawyers said at a news conference last summer that he underwent intensive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. The department paid Chong a $4.1-million settlement.
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