Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Student settles with DEA for $4.1 million for detention without food or water

Hard to believe this actually happened:

A California university student who was left handcuffed in a federal holding cell for nearly 5 days without food or water has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), his lawyers said on Tuesday.

Daniel Chong, who was rounded up along with eight other people in an April 21, 2012, drug raid at a San Diego area home, has said that he was forced to drink his own urine and nearly died after being placed in the cell and apparently forgotten.

After the ordeal, the 24-year-old student of the University of California, San Diego, spent five days in a San Diego hospital, three of them in intensive care. Last year, he filed a $20 million claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, against the DEA.

On Tuesday, his attorneys, Eugene Iredale and Julia Yoo, said they had settled that claim with the DEA for $4.1 million.
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Chong's lawyers have said that he was arrested at the home of friend during a raid by a drug enforcement task force investigating an ecstasy trafficking ring that included DEA agents, sheriff's deputies and San Diego police officers.

Iredale said that once authorities determined Chong was not part of the ring, a San Diego police officer put him in the 5-foot by 10-foot cell with his hands cuffed behind his back, telling him, "We'll come to get you in a minute."

Instead, Chong remained in the cell for four and a half days and by the time he was found he was suffering from severe dehydration, muscle deterioration, hallucinations, liver and kidney failure and extremely high levels of sodium, according to his attorneys. He lost 15 pounds during the ordeal.


So, I ask you readers of the blog, would you go through that ordeal for the money?

Would you spend 4+ days in solitary confinement without food, water, or a bathroom for $4 million?
  
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5 comments:

MC Waste Services, Inc said...

http://www.4dca.org/opinions/July%202013/07-31-13/4D12-1845.op.pdf what a bad sentence by the circuit court. awful. get a grip destry

MC Waste Services, Inc said...

http://www.4dca.org/opinions/July%202013/07-31-13/4D12-1845.op.pdf what an awful sentence by the circuit judge. get a grip destry! just cause ur in broweird doesnt make u right.

Anonymous said...

http://www.3dca.flcourts.org/Opinions/3D11-3250.rh.pdf best ruling of the week.

Anonymous said...

why wasnt bernie de la rionda and pam bondi et al riding shotgun on this day?


http://www.local10.com/news/report-zimmerman-stopped-by-cops-had-gun/-/1717324/21265644/-/c4tamqz/-/index.html

Rumpole said...

A tie is like kissing your sister. A compromise verdict is worse.