Police in Houston are currently dealing with drug-addicted rats who have acquired a taste for weed, cocaine, and other ...

The rodents are enjoying marijuana at the Houston Police Department that has been sitting in evidence for years.

Police and city officials in Houston said evidence in storage lockers is being destroyed by "drug-addicted rats." ...

The Houston Police Department and Harris County District Attorney's Office announced changes to their procedures for storing ...

"We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying," Whitmire said. Houston Police Department Chief Noe Diaz asserted the issue in its evidence room has been ...

of marijuana in storage, that the rats are the only ones enjoying ... away for decades at the downtown headquarters of the Houston Police Department. “We've got 400,000 lbs.

To illustrate the problem, Houston police Chief J. Noe Diaz pointed to one piece of cocaine evidence from 1996 that was still ...

The rat infestation was caused by the huge amounts of evidence material in the room. Read more at straitstimes.com.

said the specific item the rats broke into — a package of mushrooms — only impacts one active case. District Attorney Sean Teare, Mayor John Whitmore and Houston police Chief Noe Diaz ...

The Houston Police Department and the Harris County District ... in a press conference that in October the HPD noticed the rats were consuming old marijuana in the evidence property room.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A rat infestation at the Houston Police Department property room has raised questions about the integrity of criminal cases despite the department's claims that the ...

He added that keeping the decades-old drugs was “not something that we can continue to do as a professional police agency.” open image in gallery Rats in Houston have developed a taste for ...