Cal. College Student Awarded $4.1M For DEA Injustice
The U.S. Justice Department has been ordered to pay $4.1 million to a college student they detained in, leaving him in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell with no food or water for four days.
23-year-old Daniel Chong was detained during San Diego’s drug raid in April 2012. He was thrown into a windowless 5×10-foot holding cell. Chong said the only thing he had to drink was his urine and he attempted to write his mother a goodbye message using his blood.
Chong was a University of California San Diego engineering student who was visiting a friend when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided and took possession of 18,000 ecstasy polls, other kinds of drugs as well as weapons. Chong, along with either other people, were taken into custody.
Agents informed Chong he was not being charged but he had to wait in a DEA office cell. Of course, agents didn’t open the door again for another four days where they find Chong covered in his feces and seriously dehydrated.
Chong said the hallucinations started on day three. He peed on the metal bench to drink the urine. He stacked his shoes, pants and blanket on the bench in an effort to reach the overhead fire sprinkler, hoping to set it off.
He said on the last day, he accepted that death was coming. He bit and broke his eyeglasses to use a shard of glass to write “Sorry Mom” into his arm. He was able to carve just the S.
Chong spent five days in the hospital for kidney failure, cramps, dehydration and a punctured esophagus. He had also lost about 15 pounds.
In a rare move, the DEA issues a public apology regarding the matter.
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