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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants2 ?/ ^0 R* y$ o- [. G
2 a# C n: U! q( v* X+ {; A; fEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.& N; T( e- F9 a o: o1 X J
( c; i6 u& u7 oPolice 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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' I" H$ K6 m. f0 ?! W3 }Officers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.+ z0 L9 B( f p" l. n
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.1 P$ x! h! ^5 h& s+ W- E" ?' o
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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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