For rats in Texas, 4/20 has come early. Houston-area rodents have forced police in the area to change the way they operate after developing an addiction to drugs stored in station lockers. “We ...

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

Houston police in April will conduct the largest drug burn in the state’s history in an effort to alleviate backlogged narcotics evidence, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said. The ...

According to CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, the Houston Police Department and other agencies have permission from the DA's office to destroy any drug evidence from cleared cases before 2015.

To get rid of ‘drug-addicted’ rats, Houston police clean up evidence room. The Texas city’s mayor said he will work with the county district attorney to discard drug evidence obtained before ...

Former Houston police officer Gerald Goines sits in the courtroom after he was sentenced to 60 years behind bars on a pair of felony murder convictions on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in Houston.

A former Houston police officer was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder of a married couple during a drug raid that revealed systemic corruption in the department's narcotics ...

Justin Guzman was arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Anthony Sanders; his lawyer claims self-defense, ...

"Houston Police narcotics officers falsified documentation about drug payments to confidential informants with the support of supervisors," she said in July 2020.

‘Drug-addicted rats’ prompt Houston police to destroy old evidence. ... Houston police Chief J. Noe Diaz pointed to one piece of cocaine evidence from 1996 that was still in the lockup.