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San Diego student left in DEA cell for 5 days without food; survived by drinking urine
from the Guardian UK:
A San Diego college student was forgotten by federal drug agents and left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet.
Daniel Chong said he drank his own urine to survive. He also said he bit into his glasses to break them and tried to use a shard to scratch "Sorry Mom" into his arm, according to the newspaper U-T San Diego. The 24-year-old engineering student from University of California, San Diego, was swept up as one of nine suspects in a drug raid on 21 April that netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons.
Chong said federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents told him he would be let go. One agent even promised to drive him home from the DEA field office in Kearny Mesa, he said.
Instead, Chong was returned to a holding cell to await release. The DEA spokeswoman, Amy Roderick, said he was accidentally left there. ................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/02/san-diego-student-left-cell