Rats are consuming drugs that were seized ... According to CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, the Houston Police Department and other agencies have permission from the DA's office to destroy any drug evidence ...

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 ...

"Drug-addicted rats" are eating narcotics seized and stored by Houston police, prompting a change in how long the police department is required to store the evidence, officials said. Houston Mayor ...

"We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying," Whitmire said. Houston Police Department Chief Noe Diaz asserted the issue in its evidence room has been ...

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 ...

The Houston Police Department (HPD) is dealing with an unusual problem: "drug-addicted rats" infesting its evidence room. The infestation has prompted the department to start destroying hundreds ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A rat infestation at the Houston Police Department property room has raised questions about the integrity of criminal cases despite the department's claims that the ...

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 ...

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The Houston Police Department and the Harris County District ... in a press conference that in October the HPD noticed the rats were consuming old marijuana in the evidence property room.