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." ...

"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.

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 ...

Police said they are reconsidering how they keep evidence after multiple incidents where rats got into the evidence room to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A backlogged police evidence room in Houston, Texas, is a bountiful buffet for the city's rats, who have been munching ... of the Houston Police Department. “We've got 400,000 lbs.