Addicted rats in Houston break into police evidence room

Addicted rats in Houston, Texas, have infiltrated a police evidence storage room and attacked a shipment of over 1,800 kilograms of marijuana. According to Texas state police officials, the rats penetrated the room where seized substances from criminals are stored and chewed through the marijuana packages.

John Whitmire, the Mayor of Houston, told NBC, “We have over 1,800 kilograms of marijuana in our evidence storage, and with this attack, we are now forced to change how we store them.”

The infiltration by these addicted rodents into the police evidence storage room has compelled Houston’s mayor and law enforcement to dispose of hundreds of kilograms of drugs that have been seized from drug traffickers since 2015.

City officials suggest the issue may be more widespread. Reiss emphasized that overcrowded evidence rooms are a national issue, not unique to Houston. HPD Chief Noe Diaz noted the long-term retention of materials like notes from a 1947 homicide. “We’ve got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying,” Mayor John Whitmire said, weighing in on ongoing storage issue.

In other news:

Confiscation of the National Oil Company Building in Rotterdam

After the seizure of the National Oil Company (NIOC) building in London, the company’s building in Rotterdam, Netherlands, was also confiscated due to the Crescent case.
According to Fars news, the building was seized because of a debt exceeding $2.6 billion that NIOC owed to Crescent Gas Corporation, as per an international arbitration ruling. On April 20, 2023, this property was transferred to the company “Heuvel” through a public auction.
The temporary seizure order for this building was issued on May 20, 2022, at the request of Crescent, and eight months later, the Dutch court confirmed it, paving the way for the building’s sale at auction.
NIOC, citing international laws regarding the immunity of state property from seizure and forced sale and considering the state ownership of the building, appealed for the auction to be annulled.
In contrast, Heuvel maintained that the April 2023 auction was conducted in accordance with the law, and the legal ownership of the property belonged to them. Ultimately, the Rotterdam District Court dismissed Iran’s objection and ruled for the final confiscation of the building.

January 19, 2025 | 4:53 am