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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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8 m% e3 W, j9 U/ V4 k. y, |EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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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.( ?% Q) ?& T8 C
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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.' F' N/ ?7 d/ S
& p' h4 X7 S* o. p5 u6 `' B6 I& DPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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" L* u$ A5 [: L8 y1 C$ bRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.( p2 |' O( f7 |0 _- O
8 ]# r/ Q9 s0 ?4 f2 D0 lCharges 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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