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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants! ]$ K! j. a* ~) K% ^3 U
2 ?, }5 s, o/ u) _EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.( Z6 `7 C1 x% T& [( C* x
, d" Z1 d' j% t/ TPolice 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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, ]* d9 u! d w7 h5 Q8 iOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.0 g: D2 ~+ b& G2 W
/ h7 \8 ~4 i( T3 U% j# z( G( UPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.. k6 T n8 y. K/ L2 C- v5 ?
& g0 [' }8 O8 T: F+ W& ZRoughly 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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