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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Rats infested the Houston Police Department's evidence room and broke into a package of mushrooms, possibly disrupting open ...

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 police are changing how they store and process evidence after they discovered rats were eating old marijuana in the ...

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