Drug-addicted rats have taken over a Houston police evidence room after eating seized narcotics Police in Texas have hatched a plan to stop the rodents getting their fix.
City officials said that 1.2 million pieces of evidence were being kept in a downtown evidence room and at a second warehouse.
To illustrate the problem, Houston police Chief J. Noe Diaz pointed to one piece of cocaine evidence from 1996 that was still in the lockup.
The mayor and law enforcement officials have now decided to dispose of the evidence sooner to stop the rodents from getting their fix.
Houston-area rodents have forced police in the area to change the way they operate after developing an addiction to drugs stored in station lockers.
