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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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5 R+ `9 R( n9 t( YEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.: B2 U. F, ]3 S+ W/ f% Q. C
4 M/ z( N. c3 Z' u1 A0 n; H8 p! A" @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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' B3 R* \ ]5 B7 G3 S8 OOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.% T9 H* c3 a' G9 Y' P, S+ `
$ L }- e/ h+ l& n% p3 d; m: q4 kPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.8 }9 E! ^, H' v: g; }9 N
( e8 ?7 Z4 U# F; x) Q# @) qRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident., G, o6 V* u3 Q) d+ m
; Y, e, R; B$ A4 ?6 T' \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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