Police in Houston are currently dealing with drug-addicted rats who have acquired a taste for weed, cocaine, and other illicit drugs.

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 Whitmire.

Rodents infiltrated a narcotics evidence room at Houston police’s headquarters, accessing drugs and potentially disrupting open criminal cases. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office is notifying defense attorneys in more than 3,

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 munchies and gobbling up the marijuana being stored in criminal cases.

A rat infestation in a property room holding 1.2 million pieces of evidence is sparking concerns. "Anytime evidence is compromised, then cases could be compromised," a defense attorney said.

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 c

Houston we have a problem – rats have been dining out on everything from marijuana to psychedelic mushrooms in the city’s police evidence room. John Whitmire, the mayor of Houston, put it simply during a press conference: ‘We’ve got 400,

"Drug-addicted rats" are destroying drug evidence in Houston, potentially comprising 3,600 open drug-related cases

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 district attorney to announce a new effort to clear out old evidence from the city's police department.