<p>Attorney Eugene Iredale, left, and client Daniel Chong, who says he was left behind in a holding cell for five days, appear at a news conference on May 1, 2012 in San Diego. Chong, a U.S. college student, was forgotten by federal drug agents and left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet says he drank his own urine to survive. The 24-year-old engineering student at University of California, San Diego, was swept up as one of nine s…
May 3, 2012
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Alone and forgotten
Student left in cell 4 days recalls hallucinations
SAN DIEGO - A college student picked up in a drug sweep in California was never arrested, never charged and should have been released. Instead he was forgotten in a holding cell for four days and says he had to drink his own urine to stay alive.