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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants# \$ J# P9 q+ ?: ]( x6 a+ `9 {
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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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) x7 x% U5 w. O3 s; I0 V, D4 iPolice 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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$ t/ d5 z! y/ x# h3 ZOfficers 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.$ [! U6 M4 m. E6 [/ b9 U
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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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+ M. M! y$ T/ m5 l8 m0 vCharges 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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