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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants* M; D1 d8 c/ ^4 x" a: f! Z) x
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.1 Y* l6 O5 V* 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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( `/ F/ W5 A5 H. S% SOfficers 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.3 s" ^ K6 @1 c) N
) j8 a# g, k3 ?8 k5 RRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.( ~ c4 i/ @# F+ _% |6 H z# s
, [: E5 s3 v; D( Q& L- |Charges 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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