Mr Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesperson for the Houston District Attorney’s (DA) office, said on Jan 15 rats had infested the warehouse and were eating the drugs, even though only one ongoing case ...

They're drug-addicted rats. They're tough to deal with." Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz explained that plenty of the narcotics held in evidence concern cases that are long resolved.

Rats are tripping on drugs kept in the evidence room. Rats have been found consuming drugs, especially marijuana, seized and stored by the Houston Police Department (HPD), Texas, leaving hundreds ...

The rats were found inside the Houston Police Department in the evidence room (Picture: KHOU 11/youtube) The person tied to the drugs pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and has ...

Houston police were first made aware of rats dining in their evidence room in October, but professional exterminators had difficulties resolving the issue because of the rodents’ constant drug use, ...

Rats with a hankering for illicit drugs are treating a police evidence room like an all-you-can-eat buffet.Houston Mayor John Whitmire last week joined the city's police chief and Harris County ...

The district attorney’s office in Harris County, Texas, has alerted attorneys involved in thousands of drug-related cases that rats were found eating the narcotics seized and stored by Houston police ...

Last March, officials said rodents were consuming drugs in the evidence room of the decaying New Orleans Police Department headquarters. “The rats are eating our marijuana.

Rats infest New Orleans Police Headquarters, eat marijuana in evidence Rats are consuming drugs that were seized and stored by Houston police and hundreds of cases could be vulnerable to the ...

Rats are consuming drugs that were seized and stored by Houston police and hundreds of cases could be vulnerable to the rodent infestation, officials said. It's an issue that has prompted the ...

Rats are consuming drugs that were seized and stored by Houston police and hundreds of cases could be vulnerable to the rodent infestation, officials said. It's an issue that has prompted the district ...

The Houston Police Department says its methods for storing seized drugs have gone up in smoke after it was discovered that rats have been crawling through evidence lockers with a major case of the ...