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." ...

This week's question: Houston's mayor says that "drug-addicted rats" are scarfing piles of seized marijuana and magic ...

The Texas city’s mayor said he will work with the county district attorney to discard drug evidence obtained before 2015 that no longer has any value.

"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.

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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