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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. }" |0 k1 |& J. F/ T9 a/ J
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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.) v9 D, g9 a, l/ E
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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.
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( T, K" x- {6 P3 w& vPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.1 H+ ]; U8 p2 V8 t T: v( J/ T# V, k
9 v" [* ]" K5 W) O( M% FRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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4 c& d2 z, x3 MCharges 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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