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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants' ~' L2 t) C" ^1 B2 y4 f
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.5 \- p/ Z/ O' @' M" e, j: g
2 N g8 l' W0 v" LPolice 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.$ N8 H! `' k2 H0 B: c% L
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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./ s+ r4 p' X+ ?
1 f- P2 r6 N3 `8 kPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.8 s8 }( [2 E& y+ N4 [/ t
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.: b! ^! s* @! ~) M; I* P3 V
& x* P" b7 y& E1 x% ]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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