DEA to pay $4.1 million to student forgotten in holding cell for 5 days

The bizarre event in April 2012 began when Chong, an engineering student at the University of California, San Diego, went to a house near campus to smoke marijuana with friends and found himself swept up in a DEA raid.

After being questioned briefly, he was told he would be released. But, for reasons that remain unclear, he was left for five days in a 5-by-10-foot windowless room without food, water or toilet facilities.

He suffered hallucinations and was forced to drink his urine to survive. He screamed for help.

Fearing he would die, he broke his glasses and scrawled the message, “Sorry, mom” on his arm.

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