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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants) M0 K- R2 T5 t4 _! i6 H
# o) d) Q0 R3 E% hEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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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.; K! U, C: F; x6 Z) x4 P1 A4 h
, F! ~ w1 |; q( w% O uOfficers 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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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.
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6 J. f, N' H7 B4 u9 R0 ^5 d `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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