SAN DIEGO (AP) — A college student who was forgotten by federal drug agents and left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet says that he drank his own urine to survive.
Daniel Chong also said that he bit into his glasses to break them and tried to use a shard to scratch "Sorry Mom" into his arm, according to a story published Tuesday in U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/JRlSr8 ).
The 24-year-old engineering student at University of California, San Diego, was swept up as one of nine suspects in an April 21 drug raid that netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons.
Chong said federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents told him he would be released. One agent even promised to drive him home from the DEA field office in Kearny Mesa, he said. Instead, he was returned to a holding cell to await release. DEA spokeswoman Amy Roderick said he was accidentally left there.
"I had to recycle my own urine," he said. "I had to do what I had to do to survive."He scratched a message to his mom because he thought he was going to die from dehydration. He also claims that the lights were left off for days, and he could hear agents outside but no matter how loudly he shouted, they never heard him. That seems strange, but since he has the element of being right so far on his side, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
He also says that when they opened the door, a snide comment was made about the water he'd been asking for. It sure sounds like this was on purpose and approved over the course of several days.
Move along, citizen. There is nothing to see here.
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