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It's also a way to check the inventory they had. In October, rats were found chewing on drug evidence.

"We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage, and the rats are the only ones enjoying it," Mayor Whitmire said.

"This is a problem for property rooms everywhere in the country. Rodents, bugs, fungus -- all kinds of things love drugs," Dr. Peter Stout, president of the Houston Forensic Science Center, said. "They've had professional exterminators involved, but this is difficult getting these rodents out of there. Think about it -- they're drug-addicted rats. They're tough to deal with."

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"We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage, and the rats are the only ones enjoying it,"

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