DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student

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http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/daniel-chong-ucsd-san-diego-dea-149758275.html

Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who was left in a Drug Enforcement Agency holding cell for nearly five days, said the time spent in his cell was a life-altering experience.
Before holding a press conference Tuesday afternoon, the 23-year-old spoke with NBCSanDiego and said he was increasingly worried throughout the days he spent in a 5 ft. by 10 ft. cell, where he could not spread his arms out wide.
“They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” he said. “I’m not sure how they could forget me.”
Chong and his lawyer spoke to the media on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the claim they will file with the federal court system on Wednesday.
“He was at the wrong place at the wrong time,” said his lawyer Gene Iredale, who compared Chong’s experience to Abu Ghraib.
Chong said he was at a friend’s house in University City celebrating 4/20, a day many marijuana users set aside to smoke, when agents came inside and raided the residence. Chong was then taken to the DEA office in Kearny Mesa.
He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home. One agent even offered him a ride, Chong said. No criminal charges were filed against him.
But Chong did not go home that night. Instead, he was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink. In his desperation, he said he was forced to drink his own urine.
“I had to do what I had to do to survive….I hallucinated by the third day,” Chong said. “I was completely insane.”
Chong said he lost roughly 15 pounds during the time he was alone. His lawyer confirmed that Chong ingested a powdery substance found inside the cell. Later testing revealed the substance was methamphetamine.
After days of being ignored, Chong said he tried to take his own life by breaking the glass from his spectacles with his teeth and then carving “Sorry mom,” on his wrists. He said nurses also found pieces of glass in his throat, which led him to believe he ingested the pieces purposefully.
Chong said he could hear DEA employees and people in neighboring cells. He screamed to let them know he was there, but no one replied. He kicked the door, but no one came to get him.
By the time DEA officers found Chong in his cell Wednesday morning Chong was completely incoherent, said Iredale.
“I didn’t think I would come out,” Chong said.
He said when employees discovered him in the cell that they looked confused and nervous. A DEA employee rode with him to the hospital, where they paid for Chong’s visit.
He spent three days in the intensive care unit at Sharp Hospital and his kidneys were close to failing.
The DEA has not apologized to Chong, said Iredale.
The incident also caused Chong to miss his midterms at UCSD. He said he does not know if he will return to school, as his perspective on life has changed since his isolation.
San Diego defense attorney Gretchen Von Helms said the victim could get millions if he files a lawsuit.
"In all my years of practice I've never heard of the DEA or any Federal government employee simply forgetting about someone that they have in their care," she said.
"There has to be repercussions if people do not follow the safety and the care when they have a human being in their custody."
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Source: DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student | NBC San Diego
 
That guy is going to get legal on their ass and make millions out of it. Settlement + movie rights !
 
I hope this story goes on to talk shows. I hope this story makes headlines everydamnwhere. I hope everyone knows about this. I wish they'd get fucking dissolved over this. The goddamned bastards deserve to have this happen to them. I hope this guy never has to work another day in his life if he doesn't want to and gets his story heard all over the world.

These inhumane KILLERS deserve a damn shitstorm. I'm not quite sure there could ever be enough justice for this guy.

Love and Light to him, he surely needs it after this fucking nightmare.
 
^yeah that's so weird. Apparently if you spend time in a DEA cell it's common courtesy to give you drugs
 
Here's the Daily Mail version

College student left in holding cell for FIVE DAYS after police forget about him

PUBLISHED: 09:52, 1 May 2012 | UPDATED: 10:17, 1 May 2012

A 24-year-old college student was left in a police holding cell for five days after officers forgot about him following a drugs bust.

The unidentified man and eight others were detained following a raid on April 21 that yielded 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons.

Seven suspects were taken to county jail, and another was released, but the student from the University of California, San Diego, was somehow left behind, said Amy Roderick, a spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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l.m.a.o
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- kirsty, glasgow, 02/5/2012 00:29

Aww didums!
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- millie, london, 01/5/2012 22:48
Now that's what you call a a real deterrent - he/she may think twice next time lol
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- Daniel, Stoke, 01/5/2012 19:12

Perfect !
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- Someone, somewhere in Europe, 01/5/2012 14:32

Now that's funny!
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- KENT, SANFORD, FL USA, 01/5/2012 14:01
 
Habeas corpus has fallen to the way side in the U.S. I'm appalled by this story but unfortunately not very surprised. Every detainee or prisoner in this country must be accounted for, by law, when they are in custody. Even when being transported, they are supposed to relay info about the transportation details to a publicly accessible police dispatch centre. Authorities are increasingly corrupt though, especially at the upper levels.

The DEA is the scum of the earth, plain and simple. There is no punishment good enough to make up for all the death, destruction, and hell they have put the human race through. One day karma will serve them up and reign hell on them, and I hope I'm alive to see it. I'm not usually a vengeful person but authoritarian injustice and power with impunity REALLY make my blood boil.
 
^If that's true then this country is even more backwards than I thought. War on drugs my ass
 
GABAking said:
^If that's true then this country is even more backwards than I thought. War on drugs my ass
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I'm sure it's not all the DEA agents that do it, but I'm pretty sure it's happened before. I mean what better way than to get a snitch talking than to reward them with a "treat" of their choice. Most snitches are just addicts that get busted with little baggies and don't want to go to prison (especially since it would be much harder to obtain their drug of choice...) so they roll over. I'm sure with all the drugs the DEA handles it's pretty easy to hook up an addict when they bring them a bust.

I was talking to this guy who was dopesick once he was telling me his "handler" (he was a snitch) was supposed to bring him some heroin. That's ironic that K9 cops are called "handlers" and so are the cops that "handle" snitches... Like dogs getting their treat when they score some dope.

check out this post I made in a DARE thread. I put a lot of good links that pretty much show the math and logic in the drug war doesn't quite add up the way the mainstream "public opinion" media portrays.

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/622283-Old-D.A.R.E-memories?p=10557057#post10557057

Lots of good links in there if you have time to read and check out.
 
How do you find meth on the floor of a holding cell. Whole story seems a bit sketchy im not defending the DEA or anything but id like to hear the other side of the story before gettin up in arms
 
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