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The Rats Have Become Junkies – Eating the Evidence

The police in Houston, Texas, have a problem. Rats have invaded the police station's evidence room – and started partying on seized narcotics.

» Published: January 27 2025

The Rats Have Become Junkies – Eating the Evidence
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They are edible, they are good, they are all possible things. You can't store large quantities of drugs without expecting something like this to happen, said Peter Stout at Houston's forensic research center at a press conference earlier in January, according to The Washington Post.

The situation continues despite hired rat catchers, according to Stout.

They are drug-addicted rats. They are tough to deal with.

According to Houston's mayor John Whitmire, for example, over 180 kilos of marijuana are stored in the affected room. Now, outdated evidence will be destroyed to address the problem.

We have over 1.2 million pieces of evidence here. We have notes from a murder in 1947 that we've kept. We have cocaine from the 1990s from cases where people have already been sent to prison and served their sentences, says police chief J Noe Diaz.

In a first round, nearly 70 kilos of narcotics were destroyed last week, writes The Washington Post.

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