Drugged-up Texas rodents have reportedly been gobbling up marijuana and magic mushrooms stored as evidence in police ...

A Harris County judge has been removed from the case of convicted killer Ronald Haskell after prosecutors alleged she was ...

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

The DA's Office is alerting attorneys in more than 3,000 drug-related cases although the potential impact appears to be much more limited.

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

Rats have infiltrated a Narcotics Evidence Room in Houston, forcing the DA's office to alert attorneys on thousands of cases ...

Rats infested the Houston Police Department's evidence room and broke into a package of mushrooms, possibly disrupting open ...

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 ...

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

Apart from being addicted to marijuana, rats are also tripping on psilocybin by eating packaging that contains mushrooms.

"The Harris County District Attorney's Office was notified last week that the HPD Narcotics Evidence Room at 1200 Travis had a problem or issue with rodents," HCDAO general counsel Joshua Reiss said.