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#18634512 - 07/30/13 03:33 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days
A college student mistakenly left in a Drug Enforcement Administration interrogation room for five days will receive $4.1 million from the government in a settlement in advance of a lawsuit.
The settlement was announced Tuesday in San Diego by the student, Daniel Chong, 25, and his lawyer, Eugene Iredale.
"It was an accident, a really bad, horrible accident," said Chong, who added that he now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The bizarre event in April 2012 began when Chong, an engineering student at UC San Diego, went to a house near campus to smoke marijuana with friends and found himself swept up in a DEA raid.
After being questioned briefly at the DEA facility in San Diego, he was told he would be released. But, for reasons that remain unclear, he was left for five days in a 5-by-10-foot windowless room without food, water or toilet facilities.
He suffered hallucinations and was forced to drink his urine to survive. He screamed for help.
Fearing he would die, he broke his glasses and scrawled the message, “Sorry, mom” on his arm.
When he was discovered by DEA employees, he was covered in his own feces and severely dehydrated. He was rushed to a hospital, close to kidney failure and breathing with difficulty. He spent five days in the hospital.
Days later, a top DEA official apologized to Chong and ordered an “extensive review” of DEA procedures.
“I extend my deepest apologies [to] the young man and want to express that this event is not indicative of the high standards that I hold my employees to,” said William R. Sherman, who was acting special agent in charge of the DEA’s San Diego Division.
No charges were filed against Chong, whose attorney had said he intended to file a $20-million lawsuit against the federal government.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: leon trout]
#18634598 - 07/30/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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WOW...just...WOW...that is all
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: bolton-liberty-cap]
#18634622 - 07/30/13 03:55 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Glad they didnt just brush it off as ignorance and im so glad he got a settlement. I remember reading this story a while ago and it made me sick.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: bolton-liberty-cap]
#18634637 - 07/30/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah I heard about that awhile back on here, and Im glad this is the result.
but man... only 5 days of hell to come home with 4.1 million in ur wallet. Im down.
edit: i realize that what i just said is mean and unsympathetic and im realizing that it was an extremely catastrophic thing that happened to him. sorry. im just high but im feeling really guilty.
Edited by blitzd (07/30/13 05:56 PM)
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: blitzd]
#18634653 - 07/30/13 03:59 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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blitzd said: only 5 days of hell to come home with 4.1 million in ur wallet. Im down.
no doubt...
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: blitzd]
#18634658 - 07/30/13 03:59 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Idk man, 5 days in a windowless cell with no water food or facilities. IDK if I could do that, PTSD is almost guaranteed with this kind of situation.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: blitzd]
#18634743 - 07/30/13 04:14 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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blitzd said: but man... only 5 days of hell to come home with 4.1 million in ur wallet. Im down.
Seriously? You think have PTSD for your whole life is worth receiving 4.1 million dollars? No amount of money is worth your mental stability. Life isn't about money, bro.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: leon trout]
#18634801 - 07/30/13 04:23 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hell yeah. Fuck the DEA. Incompetent assholes.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: Nature Boy]
#18634815 - 07/30/13 04:26 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Bleh ill just take some MDMA before going into PTSD therapy.. ill be fine
heck id suck a dick for $2000... lol
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: blitzd]
#18635042 - 07/30/13 05:21 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Its bizarre that he's alive after going 5 days without water
Also bizarre that he was covered in his own shit when they found him... unless he pooped himself a near death stupor (which is what I'm hoping happened). 5 days without water is fucking crazy
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: Repertoire89]
#18635146 - 07/30/13 05:42 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Damn, 4 million for being neglected for 5 days? I almost feel envious of him.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: Eminence]
#18635294 - 07/30/13 06:04 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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frylock91 said: Damn, 4 million for being neglected for 5 days? I almost feel envious of him. 
He's probably bsing about the PTSD, but they almost killed him and in a very slow/painful way
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: blitzd]
#18635376 - 07/30/13 06:22 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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blitzd said: Yeah I heard about that awhile back on here, and Im glad this is the result.
but man... only 5 days of hell to come home with 4.1 million in ur wallet. Im down.
edit: i realize that what i just said is mean and unsympathetic and im realizing that it was an extremely catastrophic thing that happened to him. sorry. im just high but im feeling really guilty.
I'm SURE he's perfectly happy with sitting there for 5 days for 4 mil..I would be and I think anybody else would be too. There isn't a whole lot they could do to me that I wouldn't put up with for 5 days for that stack. Now granted, there are some things that wouldn't be worth it. But it sounds like he just had to sit there.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: PsilliCoder]
#18635473 - 07/30/13 06:40 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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PsilliCoder said:
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blitzd said: Yeah I heard about that awhile back on here, and Im glad this is the result.
but man... only 5 days of hell to come home with 4.1 million in ur wallet. Im down.
edit: i realize that what i just said is mean and unsympathetic and im realizing that it was an extremely catastrophic thing that happened to him. sorry. im just high but im feeling really guilty.
I'm SURE he's perfectly happy with sitting there for 5 days for 4 mil..I would be and I think anybody else would be too. There isn't a whole lot they could do to me that I wouldn't put up with for 5 days for that stack. Now granted, there are some things that wouldn't be worth it. But it sounds like he just had to sit there.
yea the whole near death thing was a sitting experience, maybe some minor leg cramps or something
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: PsilliCoder]
#18635498 - 07/30/13 06:44 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Anyone saying they're down for this... have you ever gone even a single day, or two days, without water or some other liquid? Much less five?
Dehydration is a motherfucker, and add to that being locked in a room with no sense of time and no human interaction, it's going to fuck you up. He was suffering kidney failure when they found him and had difficulty breathing. Another couple hours and his kidneys could have failed.
4 mil ain't worth that. Maybe if you know you'd come out alive, but there have been plenty of people who have died after only 3 days without water, so fuck this entire situation. I'm glad he got the moneys, but still feel bad for the kid.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: DragonChaser]
#18635875 - 07/30/13 07:55 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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And he prolly had cotton mouth the whole time!! That just sux....
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: blitzd]
#18635992 - 07/30/13 08:12 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah I'll pass on the 5 days of torture and near death experience, wipe my ass with the fucking paper
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: blitzd]
#18636031 - 07/30/13 08:22 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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You guys are forgetting its cali ( unless its not I saw it said l.a. times) but that could kill somepeople and not to mention he didn't know it was going to be 5 days only after 3 days I wouldstart thinking they left me forever, I'm sure this young man was 100% certain he would die, drinking piss which probably got thick like syrup, covered in feces from I'm sure psychosis considering the conditions. I'm sure all you guys who were down would walk out of there smiling with shit in your teeth asking about a check before a shower, i know its the internet but come on people they almost murdered him And I'm sure plenty of other people would die if left In those conditions. Maybe he went in with a full stomach
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: crimsonking91]
#18636234 - 07/30/13 09:07 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow. I feel so bad for this guy.
And the money doesn't fix it and those of you saying you'ld do it are just fooling yourselves.
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Re: DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days [Re: SCleROTiUM_LICK]
#18636260 - 07/30/13 09:12 PM (10 years, 9 months ago) |
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I just heard this early on the news. He was in a house where they found 18,000 XTC pills lol. I would love for this shit to happen to me. I could easily do 5 days for 4 million. This guy basically won the lottery. PTSD prob not after 4 million. It would be PTSD if this happened and he didn't get compensated then that would be scurrry
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