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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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' W+ K* f, x; o; k5 cEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants. U: d7 j3 P: }: D9 l
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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.
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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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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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6 `$ }4 k1 x H: IRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.' k! a! n7 r w( t: m
: r, d* T* H, V0 XCharges 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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