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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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1 E& c+ A& }# \( y$ pEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.. j( x& d# T+ t8 ]
' z4 v2 y+ J! 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.. A' W7 [" R/ Z& ~0 @; c
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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.: r6 v" {, D' e; `7 ^1 `
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.* O/ F( u! F- N0 z
" S: i4 S9 `- _9 w/ ]6 a5 QRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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% X# ~' d( U* t% c- V8 {3 F4 CCharges 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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