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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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! w; E9 p+ a1 b( w/ Q9 ?4 FEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.0 u) Q6 v! B9 I9 T
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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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( Y& F: t- _* s0 G; F7 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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& i- D4 f8 C/ ?9 ?) i, ]: r- xPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.% u7 m. ~ t! z5 J
3 O, E" ]3 H* t' wRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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, @; P( ^ Z1 z' S3 E5 X5 dCharges 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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