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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants) g4 Z( ^/ E L3 F$ r4 S* K
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.( u) c( i# r2 n. p6 y e9 _4 ]
0 B, R# s9 t7 V( ?( yPolice 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.# J$ i# g, P/ @$ D2 E8 r' U
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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.5 M& q9 H( k9 b8 x* {8 }6 Q6 o( b4 D" h
3 X C# _ ~1 ~0 i7 a% `, LCharges 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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