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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants. U1 @ r" E6 \, J% b/ {
5 j: B9 V- J; x2 [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.4 d9 A! G* A. B; E/ n
. c7 ]( L7 X; N2 K# j2 [2 |/ gOfficers 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.( P1 Q6 w3 v4 t2 I; y/ H( A
/ K1 Q% m/ W5 t3 T/ xRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.- j- F' d G9 `4 c9 V
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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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