NBC: DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student

[SWFLSkins]

Confuses say, I'm confused. Need more info being suing the crap out of government.

[skinswillwin06]

He magically found a bag of methamphetamine in his cell? Yeah, ok.

[HSW]

At that point (when he went to the hospital) he was released and wasn't a prisoner, or in custody. And he was never charged with any crime.

Actually, the article states that he was still in their cell when they found him so yes, he was still in their "custody" and they were responsible for his health and well being.

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

Actually, the article states that he was still in their cell when they found him so yes, he was still in their "custody" and they were responsible for his health and well being.

This.

[China]

Actually, the article states that he was still in their cell when they found him so yes, he was still in their "custody" and they were responsible for his health and well being.

And apparently doing a poor job of caring for his health and well being if he was ignored for 5 days.

[No Excuses]

How did he find methamphetamine in a DEA prison cell?

[China]

The DEA has now apologized:

DEA apologizes to college student left in cell

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Drug Enforcement Administration issued an apology Wednesday to a California student who was picked up during a drug raid and left in a holding cell for four days without food, water or access to a toilet.

DEA San Diego Acting Special Agent-In-Charge William R. Sherman said in a statement that he was troubled by the treatment of Daniel Chong and extended his "deepest apologies" to him.

The agency is investigating how its agents forgot about Chong.

Chong, 23, was never arrested, was not going to be charged with a crime and should have been released, said a law enforcement official who was briefed on the DEA case and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Click on the link for the full article

[The Evil Genius]

And now the people who were questioning the validity of this story will slowly back away from this thread, never to be heard from again on this topic.

[Forehead]

How did he find methamphetamine in a DEA prison cell?

Maybe they locked him in the evidence closet.

[Destino]

And now the people who were questioning the validity of this story will slowly back away from this thread, never to be heard from again on this topic.

No. I still find it very hard to believe that the DEA forgot about him in a cell and never checked the cell despite his banging around, screaming, and ripping apart one of the walls of the cell. I find it very hard to believe that they accidentally left drugs in there with him. If the DEA made it a habit to lock up people in sound proofed cells without any means of seeing inside the cell and without searching them I imagine they'd have a lot of dead suspects by now.

Something about this story doesn't add up.

[The Evil Genius]

I don't think the DEA apologizes lightly.

[RVAbrendan]

I find it very hard to believe this actually happened, but DEA isn't refuting it, so...

[stevenaa]

I'd guess he carried the drugs into the room in his stomach. Certainly within 5 days they'd have found an exit.

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

Sad thing is, he probably ends up getting paid more than people that were wrongly on death row for 15 years

[Predicto]

I'm not buying his entire story, but clearly something did go dreadfully wrong.