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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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5 K; N7 @" q+ p0 E- T/ zEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.0 g8 n2 b' M! U6 p" n
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Police say they got a tip Thursday night from a citizen who told them he'd been driving behind a cube van that was giving off a strong odour of marijuana.) t" c; H: M: A# l
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Officers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.
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# x+ I( l( r; n& Z/ T3 gPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.7 v5 \% @$ m8 s& T% t
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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Charges of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking have been laid against Dihn Xuan Luu, 44 and Deng Xuan Dihn, 51. |
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