The district attorney’s office in Harris County, Texas, has alerted attorneys involved in thousands of drug-related cases that rats were found eating the narcotics seized and stored by Houston police ...

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office is notifying defense attorneys in more than 3,600 open drug-related cases of the rat infestation out of an abundance of caution, KHOU-TV reported.

"We've got 400,000 lbs. of marijuana in storage, that the rats are the only ones enjoying it," said Houston Mayor John Whitmire A backlogged police evidence room in Houston, Texas, is a bountiful ...

Rats are consuming drugs that were seized and stored by Houston police and hundreds of cases could be vulnerable to the rodent infestation, officials said. It's an issue that has prompted the ...

“We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire told NBC. “The rats are the only ones enjoying it.” The mayor and law enforcement officials have now decided to ...

Nikolett Emmert/Pexels; KHOU Rats have infiltrated the Narcotics Evidence Room of the Houston Police Department, forcing the district attorney's office to alert attorneys on thousands of open ...

“So I got up and it turned around and I could see its tail, and that's when I knew it was a rat.” After that incident, Rohling started counting the rats she was finding in her backyard.

Evidence from thousands of criminal cases could face contamination after a rat infestation was discovered in the property room at Houston police headquarters. A purported rat colony in a downtown ...

An infestation of “drug-addicted rats” in evidence rooms will prompt the Houston Police Department (HPD) to begin destroying hundreds of thousands of pounds of unneeded narcotics evidence ...

They said the rat problem has been ongoing for months -- since the beginning of the school year. Videos and photos obtained by KHOU 11 News show some rats already dead, but there are signs the ...

The effort comes after HPD discovered a rodent infestation in their evidence property room, saying that rats were eating old marijuana. "We first noticed it in October," said Police Chief Noè Diaz in ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A rat infestation at the Houston Police Department property room has raised questions about the integrity of criminal cases despite the department's claims that the ...