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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants' Z7 C& \* ^" a {0 C
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.' A, K5 V8 }5 A# e! k
! Z4 B- h/ C9 \ zPolice 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.& Y0 O6 C6 {* s4 T4 {4 Z, [7 V
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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., E. S5 b& U% E+ P7 l6 n* [
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.: B3 G! f! q1 s
+ B; d0 [5 @! s9 ~Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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5 H, C* u) Z4 f0 ?3 r) F6 _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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