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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." X( G8 r7 S, F7 w' M
$ i) Q9 Q7 P. mPolice 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.. S, @ v( l e/ E' Q
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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.
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7 \* Q+ b$ p$ q* E" B; VPolice 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.7 B% D0 L4 O, N8 W
[ {- A# ]6 F) n* b* NCharges 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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