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

The Texas city’s mayor said he will work with the county district attorney to discard drug evidence obtained before 2015 that ...

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.

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

revealed his department knew about the infestation as far back as October and have made attempts to control the rat ...

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

The property room contains a backlog of thousands of pounds of evidence that is no longer needed, including notes from a ...

The Houston Police Department says its methods for storing seized drugs have gone up in smoke after it was discovered that ...

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 ...

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 Mayor John Whitmire and the Houston Police Department say drug-addicted rats have been digging through old evidence stashes.