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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants( ?+ `! m: P$ y7 j$ D
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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.
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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.) S4 ~7 Z# G: f; ]5 ^9 v* U
) x/ `/ [' q# D2 G6 s3 C% z3 }2 bPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.) {- O/ Z7 M1 G7 x1 S. ~- |
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident." g" v! o b4 P
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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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