Student forgotten in cell by DEA ‘glad to be alive,’ lawyer says
The attorney representing the 23-year-old UC San Diego student who reportedly drank his own urine to survive after being left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for five days without food or water said Wednesday his client was "glad to be alive."
San Diego attorney Eugene Iredale said Daniel Chong was still recovering after the incident, which resulted in a five-day stay at Sharp Hospital, including three days in the intensive care unit.
Iredale said he plans to file a lawsuit on Chong's behalf against the DEA and submitted initial paperwork today.
"He wants to make sure that what happened to him doesn't happen to anyone else," Iredale said of Chong.
Identifying Chong only as "the individual in question," the DEA said the engineering student and eight others were swept up in an April 21 raid of a suspected Ecstasy distribution operation where agents found guns, ammunition and drugs. The nine were taken to DEA area headquarters, where they were fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed.
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San Diego attorney Eugene Iredale said Daniel Chong was still recovering after the incident, which resulted in a five-day stay at Sharp Hospital, including three days in the intensive care unit.
Iredale said he plans to file a lawsuit on Chong's behalf against the DEA and submitted initial paperwork today.
"He wants to make sure that what happened to him doesn't happen to anyone else," Iredale said of Chong.
Identifying Chong only as "the individual in question," the DEA said the engineering student and eight others were swept up in an April 21 raid of a suspected Ecstasy distribution operation where agents found guns, ammunition and drugs. The nine were taken to DEA area headquarters, where they were fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed.
(More here.)
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