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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants7 p6 h" d+ l+ D8 X0 I G
9 K( [* ?& T+ ?4 t" a5 l0 IEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.: ?8 @1 H' x7 S% h
5 g H! J9 I+ l( B1 B8 ^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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7 G! ]) q3 r; vOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.7 R6 D) @1 C: p6 [- {
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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$ @5 b7 h( K# L3 J3 W/ X* X& kRoughly 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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