The Drug
Enforcement Administration extended an apology to a University of
California engineering student who was locked in a holding cell for four
days and forgotten about. The student drank his own urine in desperation and attempted to kill himself, before agents returned four days later and found him, he told NBC San Diego.
"I am deeply troubled by the
incident that occurred here last week," DEA San Diego Acting Special
Agent in Charge William R. Sherman said in a statement provided to Yahoo
News. "I extend my deepest apologies the young man and want to express
that this event is not indicative of the high standards that I hold my
employees to. I have personally ordered an extensive review of our
policies and procedures."
An earlier statement from the San
Diego DEA office was less contrite, with spokeswoman Amy Roderick
saying that the student was caught in a drug raid because "he was at the
house, by his own admission, to get high with his friends."
Daniel Chong, 24, told NBC that
he was taken to the local DEA office after he was caught in a drug raid
where he was smoking marijuana on April 20. The agents didn't charge him
criminally and even told him they would drive him home, but apparently
forgot about him in a holding cell, where he languished for days. Chong
says he finally gave up on screaming for help, and eventually tried to
kill himself with the glass from his spectacles and drank his own urine,
sure he would die there.
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