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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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+ k( b2 u9 v3 a* O) w% l- eEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.% o& r- L, v9 c; n) 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.( \0 M1 W8 M: H( D& X! m
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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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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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/ `3 {. u5 F K2 zCharges 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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