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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants1 R! P9 h! E$ z1 u: B
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.$ y4 K4 m/ g* |. h1 l
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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." a" D- h4 t; P- j# j" Z- z; r
; m. B' k4 h2 cOfficers 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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+ Q/ A. \$ h0 ~1 KPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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. d/ M1 |9 J% S8 XRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.( _, L: ^2 {6 n- b! ]0 F, b% f
6 N8 P8 k; T3 A% I. SCharges 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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