these rats are broken into the Police Branch — Getting high on drugs.
Drug-addicted rodents in Texas are reportedly devouring marijuana and magic mushrooms kept as evidence at a police station, potentially putting hundreds of cases at risk. Kou Reported.
“Just to give you an example, we have 400,000 pounds of marijuana in a warehouse and the only people enjoying it are rats,” Mayor John Whitmire said at a press conference.
The problem is so serious that Houston's district attorney has warned defense attorneys in more than 3,600 unsolved drug cases and given police permission to suppress drug evidence from cleared cases from before 2015. Gave.
Joshua Reese, general counsel for the Harris County District Attorney's Office, said the pests invaded packages containing mushrooms as well as marijuana.
Texas may have a rodent epidemic, but Reese believes it's a nationwide problem.
“Drug evidence rooms and evidence rooms in general that are full of old evidence, this is a national problem,” he said.
Police officials say the problem dates back decades. Last March, New Orleans police officers discovered a drugged rodent in the evidence room at police headquarters.
“Rats are eating our marijuana,” NOPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said at a meeting of the city's Criminal Justice Commission at the time.
“Everyone is expensive.”
