Rodents have infiltrated a narcotics evidence room at the Houston Police Department headquarters, accessing drugs and potentially compromising open criminal cases. While the specific item accessed, a package of mushrooms, only impacts one active case, the incident highlights the department's ongoing efforts to clear out unnecessary items from the property room. Officials have mentioned storing decades-old homicide notes, kilos of cocaine from the 1990s, and 400,000 pounds of marijuana, noting that the latter is likely being enjoyed solely by the rats.
Rodents infiltrated a narcotics evidence room at Houston police’s headquarters, accessing drugs and potentially disrupting open criminal cases.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 Whitmore and Houston police Chief Noe Diaz previously announced an effort to clear out unnecessary items from the property room .
“We have instances where we have kilos of cocaine from the ’90s where people have already been sent to prison, have already been released from the sentence, and we still store it.”“Just one example, we’ve got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying,” Whitmore said.Lana Ferguson joined The Dallas Morning News after reporting in South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette newspapers.
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