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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants; u" q+ |& X) j) ]% d. Z
$ Z6 j+ z! C2 |, G: bEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.& p/ l% h; I9 @3 |& `# K6 k* e6 E
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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.7 W2 E0 ~9 X2 l" g2 q
6 k! k/ ?4 ]4 B: fRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.8 v6 O4 d+ g+ z, X( R
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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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