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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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7 E6 P! l6 j8 J+ P# cEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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! J- M* Q; m' h+ h3 F& w5 iPolice 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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7 i8 d; k) s: r) w! @' X7 R# ]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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4 s! Z _6 P7 X5 [* `Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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! V5 g+ ^" h$ M9 h0 H$ {Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.6 V0 n2 u+ W; U0 u
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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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