"Drug-addicted rats" are eating narcotics seized and stored by Houston police, prompting a change in how long the department is required to store the evidence, officials said. Houston Mayor Jo hn ...

The Harris County District Attorney's Office has notified attorneys in thousands of criminal cases that rats have been eating drug evidence.

Rats have gotten into confiscated pot at New Orleans' aging police headquarters, munching the evidence as the building is taken over by mold and cockroaches, said the city's police chief. “The rats ...