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

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

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

"We've got 400,000 lbs. of marijuana in storage, that the rats are the only ones enjoying it," said Houston Mayor John ...

Drug-addicted rats have taken over a Houston police evidence room after eating seized narcotics - Police have hatched a plan to stop the rodents getting their fix ...

"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 ...

The Houston Police Department says its methods for storing seized drugs have gone up in smoke after it was discovered that rats have been crawling through evidence lockers with a major case of the ...

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.

Drugged-up Texas rodents have reportedly been gobbling up marijuana and magic mushrooms stored as evidence in police precincts, potentially putting hundreds of cases in jeopardy, reports said.

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

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