Rats are eating confiscated marijuana at police headquarters, says chief

Anne Kirkpatrick says conditions at the department’s headquarters are so deplorable that rats are munching on contraband in the evidence room (Brett Duke/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Rats have gotten into confiscated drugs at New Orleans’ aging police headquarters, munching the evidence as the building is taken over by mould and cockroaches, the city’s police chief has said.

“The rats eating our marijuana, they’re all high,” Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told New Orleans City Council members.