Drug-eating rats invade police evidence room and get taste for coke and cannabis Houston we have a problem – rats have been dining out on everything from marijuana to psychedelic mushrooms in the city’s police evidence room.
To illustrate the problem further, Houston police Chief J. Noe Diaz pointed to one piece of cocaine evidence from 1996 that was still in the lockup.
Houston keeps 1.2 million pieces of evidence in a downtown evidence room and at a second warehouse.
Law enforcement officials and the mayor have decided to destroy narcotics evidence that was found before 2015 and that is no longer needed for a case.
John Whitmire, the mayor of Houston, put it simply during a press conference: ‘We’ve got 400,000lb of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying.’.
