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An infestation of "drug-addicted rats" in evidence rooms will prompt the Houston Police Department to begin destroying hundreds of thousands of pounds of unneeded narcotics evidence, officials said.

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Infestation of ‘drug-addicted rats’ prompting purge of backlogged Houston evidence room

The property room contains a backlog of thousands of pounds of evidence that is no longer needed, including notes from a homicide that occurred in 1947, and kilos of cocaine from the 1990s. 

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Jan 13, 2025 at 9:15pmHPM Postbot