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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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+ u8 @0 K; L) i. n4 r" WEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.5 ]4 A. W- J6 @) N
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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.
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8 r' u$ g3 v& ~7 Y! gOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.5 D8 z3 u. s, {) k" b
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.; O& I, o5 P. o& ?) r
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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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2 U9 `& P* }5 T+ O# x$ ?/ z9 H6 uCharges 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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