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Report: 4 DEA agents saw Chong in cell
Report: 4 DEA agents saw Chong in cell
Inspector General finds those who saw abandoned inmate did nothing
Four different federal drug agents saw or heard Daniel Chong during the five days he was handcuffed in a holding cell without food or water after a 2012 narcotics sweep, a U.S. Department of Justice report released on Tuesday found.
The agents did nothing because they assumed someone else was responsible for the detainee, and because there was no training for agents on how to track and monitor wards at the Kearny Mesa detention center, the report found.
Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors also compromised any potential criminal prosecution of the agents at fault by responding improperly to the case, in which charges were never filed, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General said.
Chong, a University of California San Diego student who later won $4.1 million in a legal claim against the DEA, was caught up in an April 2012 drug sweep but never charged with a crime.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jul/08/oig-report-daniel-chong-dea/
Inspector General finds those who saw abandoned inmate did nothing
Four different federal drug agents saw or heard Daniel Chong during the five days he was handcuffed in a holding cell without food or water after a 2012 narcotics sweep, a U.S. Department of Justice report released on Tuesday found.
The agents did nothing because they assumed someone else was responsible for the detainee, and because there was no training for agents on how to track and monitor wards at the Kearny Mesa detention center, the report found.
Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors also compromised any potential criminal prosecution of the agents at fault by responding improperly to the case, in which charges were never filed, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General said.
Chong, a University of California San Diego student who later won $4.1 million in a legal claim against the DEA, was caught up in an April 2012 drug sweep but never charged with a crime.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jul/08/oig-report-daniel-chong-dea/
$4.1 million settlement. Good for Chong but that's taxpayer money, not DEA money. The agency will just request more money to make up the difference and it will be given to them without question. It's not like the money will be taken from salaries -- no one is even losing their job.
