Part-time San Diego college student… and now thanks to the DEA – full-time millionaire – Daniel Chong has agreed to accept a cash settlement of $4.1 million. Daniels cash award is a punitive slap in the face of the San Diego contingency of the Drug Enforcement Agency after Daniel was arrested on 4.20.2012 in a DEA drug raid, then forgotten in a cell for five days – with no water or food. Chong attorney Eugene Iredale announced Tuesday that he reached a settlement with the Justice Department. He didn’t even to file a lawsuit. Chong’s not-so-excellent adventure began on the night of April 20, 2012, when the engineering student went to a friend’s house in University City to celebrate the pot-smokers’ holiday. He was unaware that the house had been under surveillance by a federal drug task force, and had slept over when DEA agents raided the place early the next morning. Agents found 18,000 ecstasy tablets, as well as marijuana and several weapons in the home. They also found Chong sleeping on the living room couch. DEA agents transported Chong and six other people in the house to the DEA’s San Diego office for follow-up questioning. After questioning, DEA agents decided against charging him and said they would release him. But instead, he was returned to a temporary holding cell—and forgotten. Chong spent the next four days in the cell without food or water. He said he resorted to drinking his own urine, became delirious, and broke his glasses, using shards from them to cut the message “Sorry, mom” in his own forearm. StonerNation @stonernationcom
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