The burn comes months after an infestation of “drug-addicted rats” in evidence rooms prompted the Houston Police Department’s plan to destroy hundreds of thousands of pounds of unneeded ...

The problem is not limited to the city of Houston. New Orleans Police Department officials said in March 2024 that drug evidence was under assault from pests including rats and cockroaches.

For rats in Texas, 4/20 has come early. Houston-area rodents have forced police in the area to change ... only be destroyed if it came into the department's care prior to 2005.

according to the Houston Police Department. HPD Capt. Ryan Watson told ABC13 officers were surveilling who they believed to be a man wanted for an out-of-state robbery at the Garden Oaks Village ...