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." ...

"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.

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

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 ...

We've presented a few articles about drug fueled animals before. That's not a sentence that you really think about typing, ...

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

"Drug-addicted rats" are destroying drug evidence in Houston, potentially comprising 3,600 open drug-related cases ...

Drug-addicted rats are running amock in Houston, more specifically, in storage rooms of the Houston Police Department, where ...

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.