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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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! ~# i8 L% z8 [# J& E, tEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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3 S% Z* a ?- Q5 \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.3 i3 `4 S& P' o0 K
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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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8 Q, a) z$ P& G! T$ uPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.1 O& i1 Y' [# `
, m1 X3 T8 o* z2 \ IRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.6 E+ R. |. P9 N1 ~
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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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