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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants3 b- b8 Z ~, ]( i! e# W3 j
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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6 f$ E! |- J& `! w# _: PPolice 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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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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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.$ m8 i' j! l4 z9 I8 r" \$ f
8 @. n9 r8 ^8 H$ ERoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.# T4 O7 r1 A2 `5 U6 Z6 b8 A( \
6 X* E4 s! w' W) p6 hCharges 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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