It's your tax-paying money that he is "winning"
The DEA is helping to keep scum and their poison off the streets. They are the most effective and useful element of the government followed by ICE and DHS.
If you dont want to be kept without food and water for five days.....dont be involved with drugs to begin with.
Federal authorities detained the engineering student after an ecstasy raid in University City April 21, where Chong admits he was smoking marijuana with friends. Officials say they seized 18,000 ecstasy pills, marijuana, prescription medication, mushrooms, several weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition in the raid.
Great, another scum bag is going to get rich on tax dollars.
-KeithP
One day North Koreans will be a safer and freer people. Our rabbit hole of tyranny knows no bounds.
you'd do the same if you went w/o food or water for 5 days!
5 days without water? He lived?
Ima have to call shens.
What the fuck are you talking about? The DEA is corrupt agency that is pursuing policies that everyone knows aren't working, while at the same time doing its damndest to prevent drug policy laws from being reformed. I don't like the IRS,but it is necessary to run the government. The DEA is necessary for nothing except paying the salaries of the pieces of shit who work for the DEA.
You can live, especially since he drank his urine.
They didn't even arrest him. His civil rights were violated, and they damn near killed him. According to the article I read, he's got permanent organ damage from the dehydration. Scumbag not really found. Idiot, maybe... and possible scumbag-in-training. The weapons and drugs obviously weren't his, or they would have actually arrested him and charged him with something.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has apologized to a San Diego college student who said he drank his own urine to survive after being left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet.
The man, identified by news outlets as 23-year-old UC San Diego engineering student Daniel Chong, was “accidentally” left in the holding cell after he and eight other people were detained for questioning following an April 21 raid in which agents found guns, ammunition and an array of drugs, including 18,000 ecstasy pills, the DEA said.
“I am deeply troubled by the incident that occurred here last week,” William R. Sherman, acting special agent in charge of DEA's San Diego Division, said in a statement Wednesday.
“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,” Sherman said, adding he has ordered “an extensive review” of DEA policies and procedures.
Identified by the DEA only as “the individual in question,” Chong and the others were swept up during a raid of a suspected ecstasy distribution operation and taken to DEA area headquarters, the agency said.
All of the suspects were fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed individually, as agents moved them among the five cells at the DEA post.
After processing, seven of the nine were taken to a county detention facility, one was released and Chong was “accidentally left in one of the cells,” the DEA said, without elaborating.
As days went by, Chong told NBC San Diego, he “kicked the door many, many times,” in a futile attempt to get agents’ attention. He eventually drank his urine to survive, he said, began hallucinating and tried to kill himself by breaking his glasses and cutting his wrist.
“I didn’t care if I died,” he told the station. “I was completely insane.”
When agents finally discovered Chong, he was taken to a hospital and admitted to an intensive-care unit for several days, the station said.
The DEA said Chong told agents he had been at the house that was raided “to get high with his friends” and that he later admitted using a white powdery substance found in his cell that tested positive for methamphetamine. He has not been charged.
“The individual is not currently under arrest,” the DEA said in a statement, “and we plan to thoroughly review both the events and the detention procedures on April 21st and after.”
But on the plus side, they did leave him meth.
helps alleviate hunger :^D
Looks like you don't need to get to Gitmo to get tortured nowadays.
They have cells with no toilets?
If there was a toilet, couldn't he have gotten fresh water out of it? If I was losing my mind from thirst I'd probably hit the water flowing into the bowl of a toilet before drinking my urine.
If they have cells without toilets, and they ignore people in them for days, well that's just fucked.
Edit: Just read he had no access to a toilet. What kind of "holding" cell is so isolated that you can literally forget somebody is in it?
Can you post the link to article
Great, another scum bag is going to get rich on tax dollars.
-KeithP
He's got that smirk on his face, you know, the kind where he know he has just struck gold . Now he just has to play the role all the way through until pay day! The trauma he has faced, I'm sure he will quickly forget cuz he is going to be one rich kid.
With his criminal ties and drug addiction, I only wonder how long it will be before he blows away his payout.