# DEA:  "Sorry we held you for 4 days without food, water, toilet, etc. and you nearly died."

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 2, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dea-sorry-we-held-you-for-4-days-without-food-water-toilet-etc-and-you-nearly-died/620677 "2012-05-02T19:26:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dea-sorry-we-held-you-for-4-days-without-food-water-toilet-etc-and-you-nearly-died/620677/1 "2012-05-02T19:26:28Z")

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> The Drug Enforcement Administration issued an apology Wednesday to a California student who was picked up during a drug raid and left in a holding cell for four days without food, water or access to a toilet.
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> DEA San Diego Acting Special Agent-In-Charge William R. Sherman said in a statement that he was troubled by the treatment of Daniel Chong and extended his “deepest apologies” to him.
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> The agency is investigating how its agents forgot about Chong.

]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_SUSPECT\_FORGOTTEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-02-15-07-17](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUSPECT_FORGOTTEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-02-15-07-17))

This is the best part, the part that’s really hilarious: he was never under arrest!

Ain’t that a hoot?!

:dubious:

“Sorry dude! Our bad!”

:smack:

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dea-sorry-we-held-you-for-4-days-without-food-water-toilet-etc-and-you-nearly-died/620677/2 "2012-05-02T19:30:36Z")

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Already being pitted:

> **[Let's Pit the DEA...one more time. (RO)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=650394)**
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> Link to relevant story. Short version: UC San Diego student swept up in a series of drug raids is tossed in a cell without food or water and then “forgotten” for 4 days. I hope he wins millions in a well-publicized lawsuit and I hope the people and...

This is fucking horrifying third world crap. I hope the assholes in charge do time, but they won’t.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dea-sorry-we-held-you-for-4-days-without-food-water-toilet-etc-and-you-nearly-died/620677/3 "2012-05-02T19:57:22Z")

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We’ve already got one thread on this, so I’m closing this one.