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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants7 `2 V0 [* r- I, d& m
% U2 [) F+ G0 U, qEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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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.; F: G5 l* N) w. r0 c: E( _7 c
3 }+ u* k; T) L0 `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.
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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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3 y# S( J. P3 t; X9 aCharges 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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