Police and city officials in Houston said evidence in storage lockers is being destroyed by "drug-addicted rats." ...

Based on individual trends within cities, Washington was by far the leader in rat increases, followed by San Francisco, ...

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.

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

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

The rat infestation was caused by the huge amounts of evidence material in the room. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"400,000 pounds of marijuana and storage and the rats are the only ones enjoying it," said Houston Mayor John Whitmire. "Think about it, they are drug-addicted rats. They’re tough to deal with ...

Houston police say their evidence lockers are filled to the brim. They have backpacks, ATMs, thousands of bicycles, notes from a nearly century-old homicide case and an infestation of rats that ...

Drug-addicted rats are running amock in Houston, more specifically, in storage rooms of the Houston Police Department, where ...

Winters are getting warmer and shorter as the climate changes. That's helping rat populations grow in several U.S. cities.