The Houston police property warehouse needs cleaning out, officials claim. Thousands of pounds of drugs, over 60,000 firearms, blood samples and countless pieces of evidence have been collected at crime scenes. Now city leaders say some of that evidence needs to be destroyed.

On Friday, Mayor John Whitmire, Police Chief Noe Diaz, and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare all met at the police evidence store room to announce they will be destroying evidence.

We're told they'll only be destroying evidence that is no longer needed or useful to a case.

The issue is two-fold. They need to make room for the new evidence and the staffing it takes to run the facility is keeping police from being on the streets.

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