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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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: ?8 |, e; n1 B3 t2 i! B2 eEDMONTON - 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.9 o( \2 g6 [7 F& V# @
9 a$ G- W. p& LOfficers 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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/ C0 @9 _; E; U& ]& [9 {Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.6 ?4 B& R, b; D R+ W9 x8 q
, n+ e. F M0 f6 L) O+ bRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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& s2 `/ P( Q: p% C, e+ S, R$ F' p3 hCharges 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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