Rats Eat Up Marijuana Kept As Evidence In US Police Station: Report
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Rats have gotten into confiscated cannabis at New Orleans' ageing police headquarters, munching the evidence.
The ageing headquarters of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) have become so overrun with vermin that rats have been feasting on confiscated marijuana, according to Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick. She described the building, which has housed the NOPD since 1968, as suffering from mould, cockroaches, and broken air conditioning and elevators. Officers have even reported finding rat droppings on their desks.
"The rats eating our marijuana, they're all high," Anne Kirkpatrick told Nola.com.
Kirkpatrick told the New Orleans City Council that these conditions are not only unsanitary but also demoralising to staff and unappealing to potential recruits.
