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." ...

HPD and the Harris County District Attorney's office is changing how evidence is stored after a 'drug-addicted rat' problem ...

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

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

"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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.