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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants! b* g: E" W/ r/ e) T5 `
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.+ M! r2 Y' I! T1 P
" w6 y( z4 b* ^( O. W) Z$ V$ kPolice 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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9 l' ]0 K# v/ mOfficers 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.9 Z6 N, c3 Z1 q; S3 Z
) {0 y5 C% {4 w8 Y- E0 ^* K3 iRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.' b' u1 o) a0 M9 o$ K; ~
U0 S" |% J4 g; ^. p9 g. p+ ?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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