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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants* O- x) z6 H$ W& f9 w6 V h/ N
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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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3 z- K* t8 W9 K, E8 ^+ _! V" BPolice 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.3 b. a. T- ~ f: k8 T4 `
J. U* L" {: T" K( j% R: b# Z5 ~Officers 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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7 u2 e% i% v- _Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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; x8 y# W1 g9 |4 A! cRoughly 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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