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

Houston police were first made aware of rats dining in their evidence room in October, but professional exterminators had ...

"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 ...

The office‘s general counsel, Joshua Reiss, said the specific item the rats broke into — a package of mushrooms — only impacts one active case. District Attorney Sean Teare, Mayor John ...

Rafaella Spone says her life was upended after Hilltown Township Police wrongfully accused her of harassing her daughter's ...

Hundreds of cases could be disrupted in Houston due to an infestation of drug-eating rats. The Harris County District Attorney's Office recently alerted defense attorneys in more than 3,600 cases that ...

"We've got 400,000 lbs. of marijuana in storage, that the rats are the only ones enjoying it," said Houston Mayor John ...

The rodents are enjoying marijuana at the Houston Police Department that has been sitting in evidence for years.

Joshua Reiss, general counsel at the Harris County District Attorney, said the rodents also got into packaging containing mushrooms. "The Harris County District Attorney's Office was notified last ...