Crown drops charges against two Alberta farmers arrested in tractor checkstop

The Alberta Crown has withdrawn charges against two young farmers following a run-in with sheriffs at a checkstop where their tractor was towed away. Jeremia Leussink, 19, was taking the tractor from one field to another on July 31 when he was stopped by provincial sheriffs at a highway checkstop near Didsbury, Alta., north of Calgary. Family members have said that frustrated by a long line of cars, he drove into a ditch to get into the other field, prompting sheriffs to pull him out of the trac