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Anybody want to go to jail? Student Left in DEA Cell for Four Days to Get $4 Million
newsmax ^ | 7/31/13

Posted on 07/31/2013 2:11:42 PM PDT by bestintxas

The Justice Department has agreed to pay $4.1 million to a California college student left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell last year, according to two people familiar with the case.

Daniel Chong was detained in an April 2012 drug raid in San Diego and left in a windowless holding cell for four days without food or water. He says he drank his own urine to stay alive.

The people familiar with the case spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the settlement before it is officially announced. His attorney filed a $20 million claim against the government last year.

A DEA spokesman, Rusty Payne, referred questions Monday to the Justice Department, which handled settlement negotiations. A call to the Justice Department's public affairs office was not returned. Chong, who was attending University of California, San Diego, was at a friend's house in April 2012 when a DEA raid netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons. Chong and eight others were taken into custody.

Agents told Chong he would not be charged and had him wait in the 5-by-10-foot cell at DEA offices in San Diego. The door did not reopen for four days, when agents found him severely dehydrated and covered in his own feces.

Chong said he began to hallucinate on the third day. He urinated on a metal bench to drink his urine. He stacked a blanket, his pants and shoes on the bench and tried to reach an overhead fire sprinkler, futilely swatting at it with his cuffed hands to set it off.

Chong said last year that he gave up and accepted death. He bit into his eyeglasses to break them. He said he

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To: bestintxas
While no one would dispute he was wronged, it seems a bit over-the-top with the current budget issues the Fed has, doesn't it?

Hardly. He almost died of dehydration, which is one of the most unpleasant ways there is to die, and he will likely continue to have medical problems as a result. Locking a prisoner in a room with no food or water until he died was a technique used by the Nazis at Auschwitz to terrorize the inmates.

41 posted on 07/31/2013 3:14:19 PM PDT by Rufii
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To: GeronL

Forget the 10 mil, I’ll up it to 15 million.........


42 posted on 07/31/2013 3:15:24 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: GeronL
innocent people in prison for YEARS get less in recompense

Well, there is a difference, those innocent convicted of a crime were convicted by a judge or jury...wrongly...but they had their day in court...the justice system failed them...

This guy was just left to die because of complete incompetence...no judge, no jury, just some jackbooted roided up ass clowns

43 posted on 07/31/2013 3:15:25 PM PDT by Popman
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To: naturalman1975
Yes, towards the end I no longer felt thirsty, but I was also starting to become fairly irrational at that point.

I could certainly understand that. Thanks for your reply.

44 posted on 07/31/2013 3:17:49 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Regarding shelter, I know from reports that folks who were suffering from hypothermia often no longer felt cold, and actually removed clothing because they felt too warm.

It's called Paradoxical Undressing, and it's one of the last stages before death (burrowing comes next, although neither is found in all cases). One line of thinking is that, as the body loses control, the mechanisms that were pulling blood (and heat) from the extremities to the core give up, resulting in a flush of the body's last warmth out to the skin, where it's quickly dissipated.

45 posted on 07/31/2013 3:21:41 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: GeronL

$4 million is excessive by a lot.

It would be better if the 4 million was funded by performing multiple “pension-ectomies” to the morons that wronged him...


46 posted on 07/31/2013 3:22:36 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Popman

This guy was just left to die because of complete incompetence...no judge, no jury, just some jackbooted roided up ass clowns

If the guy had died how much you wanna bet that they would have just dumped his dead body somewhere....


47 posted on 07/31/2013 3:23:59 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

bump


48 posted on 07/31/2013 3:27:39 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: workerbee
I say give him $8 million. He had to drink his own urine, for cripes sake.

Fine. As long as someone gets fired.

49 posted on 07/31/2013 3:29:35 PM PDT by marron
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To: IYAS9YAS
but I was also starting to become fairly irrational at that point.

Who knew liberals malfunctioning brains was a lack of water...

: )

50 posted on 07/31/2013 3:29:36 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Stentor
...gauleiters...

I learned a new word today. Thanks.

51 posted on 07/31/2013 3:32:35 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (People in America are still tried in the courts rather than by left-wing protesters or by the media.)
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To: bestintxas

“...a bit over-the-top...”

You seriously asked that?

If you were shoved in a cell, forced to drink your own urine, handcuffed, and covered in your own waste, I’d wager you’d be asking for 4 or more for sure.

I know I would. Hell, I’d OWN the f***ers and several next generations of their families as indentured Public servants.


52 posted on 07/31/2013 3:50:31 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: GeronL

don’t go take a drink of water, then sit in your chair for the next 96 hours and consume nothing while you go insane not knowing if you live. And your survival is essentially up to bureaucrats. Honestly he could have easily died and my life is worth at least 4 million.


53 posted on 07/31/2013 4:02:09 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: naturalman1975

Its killing me. What did you do to be stuck for 4 days without water?


54 posted on 07/31/2013 4:03:15 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: Stentor

Yeah brother...


55 posted on 07/31/2013 4:06:22 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: Venturer

Settlement money is not taxed...


56 posted on 07/31/2013 4:10:01 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: bestintxas

I’d give him more — and then disband the DEA.

With “the current budget issues” you cite this fascist anti-constitutional agency is a good place to start the savings... right after the ATF of course.


57 posted on 07/31/2013 4:13:14 PM PDT by In Another Time... (..In another place...)
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To: Little Ray

Didn’t know that.


58 posted on 07/31/2013 4:21:29 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: bestintxas
Yup, strange things happen to people in prison: Carl Limbacher of the Washington Weekly writes that the Boston Globe's Curtis Wilkie has learned that prison officials withheld crucial heart medication from key Whitewater witness James McDougal just hours before he died of a heart attack. Further, when McDougal suffered the coronary -- according to Wilkie's sources at the Federal Medical Center -- guards and staff did not attend to McDougal for nearly an hour.
59 posted on 07/31/2013 4:28:13 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Phony President)
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To: dinodino

“Okay, so how much do YOU think being left to die of thirst, handcuffed in a pile of your own soil, is worth?”

Really. He went into kidney failure and almost died. Wonder how that affects his kidneys for the future? Not even mentioning the mental agony of not knowing if he was ever going to be found. Only reason he survived is that he was smart enough to drink his own urine.

Ten million wouldn’t be too much in my book.


60 posted on 07/31/2013 4:29:13 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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