The Texas city’s mayor said he will work with the county district attorney to discard drug evidence obtained before 2015 that ...

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.

"We've got 400,000 lbs. of marijuana in storage, that the rats are the only ones enjoying it," said Houston Mayor John ...

The Houston Police Department, the Mayor's office, and the District Attorney's Office are teaming up for a holistic approach ...

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

A rat colony in a downtown Houston police property room has compromised a bag of mushrooms intended as evidence against two ...

A rat infestation in a property room holding 1.2 million pieces of evidence is sparking concerns. "Anytime evidence is ...

The property room contains a backlog of thousands of pounds of evidence that is no longer needed, including notes from a ...

The Houston Police Department says its methods for storing seized drugs have gone up in smoke after it was discovered that ...

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

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 ...