Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Year : 2, Issue : 11
Cops in New Orleans are on the tail of a brazen gang of narcotics traffickers who broke into the evidence room at police headquarters and pilfered all the pot: a swarm of rodents with a hankering for the high life.
“The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Anne Kirkpatrick, superintendent of the city’s police department, told a council committee meeting on Monday.
She told the city’s criminal justice committee that the decrepit mid-city criminal justice building in which the police department is currently housed, and which was built in 1968, is no longer fit for the job.
Along with the rats, which she said leave feces all over desks, there is an infestation of cockroaches, as well as countless maintenance issues, including broken elevators, non-functioning plumbing, and an air conditioning system that collapsed last summer, and has a repair bill in excess of $6m.
“It is not just at police headquarters. It is all the districts. The uncleanliness is off the charts,” Kirkpatrick told councilors. “The janitorial cleaning [team] deserves an award, trying to clean what is uncleanable.” “I foresee most of the criminal justice agencies will have to be temporarily housed as we address these old decrepit buildings,” chief administrative officer Gilbert Montaño said, according to the Nola.com report.
“Right now, we are addressing police headquarters because it is in dire straits.”
Officials did not discuss what would happen to the main building’s swarms of rats, which are not the first rodents to display a liking for marijuana, nor the first to burgle a police premises to get it.
Source: The Guardian
