"An engineering student stepped forward with his lawyer Tuesday to say he was left alone in a federal holding cell for five days with no food or water, apparently forgotten by the federal drug agents who detained him."

PartTimeBadman · 2012-05-03T11:35:50+00:00

That is beyond messed up. I hope heads will roll- ideally completely off shoulders- for this.

DarthOvious · 2012-05-03T13:18:51+00:00

Considering he was banging on the cell door and making a racket, I don't buy the story that he was left in the cell by accident. If he was then they would have heard him. It's not he was in a sound proof room or anything.

Embogenous · 2012-05-03T08:07:02+00:00

A bit of speculation on what happened; the officer told him he would be freed to make him feel relaxed. They then intentionally planned on leaving meth in the cell with him, hoping that he would take it of his own accord and so they could charge him and claim he took it prior to the arrest. After five days they pulled him out because he was in danger of dying. Though I don't know why they wouldn't take him out earlier.

If there wasn't malicious intent, then they must just be idiots who somehow left a bag of meth in a cell and left a dude in there for five days.

Or the information is wrong, of course, but they admitted they left meth in there with him so something is definitely up.

Nesman64 · 2012-05-03T18:02:49+00:00

He's a college senior, and this happened right before/during finals? Damn.

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