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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.4 f" e1 Y2 [! g6 e
, _+ _9 l$ O/ t) gPolice 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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- S' Q# \* b8 h: m4 G- G0 O/ _5 K. ^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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* X: {9 m m' V, D. Q6 e2 \Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.6 s. v' J& e* Q- Q' ^
# S+ A9 l# W$ ]# NCharges 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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