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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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- [+ v( l* G6 I( h( p( kEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.* l- X/ z# y0 Z2 c1 ]* J
$ b7 [1 m9 k9 G; P% g3 H) b' m- Y, zPolice 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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4 @( T( a, j0 |# I# qOfficers 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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& K( U" z" ~5 A l' GPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.6 ~) ^) a( K# {5 z3 k
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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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