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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.+ c! q( {1 t ^5 h& \( [$ K
$ t+ A, t% L/ M1 U& 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.
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- }9 U. L- D8 r0 `8 _Officers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.9 S0 X6 q( [) L" V2 M; n
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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 B) Y6 n8 Y1 @: |/ z) z" kRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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* Q0 N4 p$ s- ^0 a* ]& LCharges 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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