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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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1 B! K% w" w9 `0 z! ], S, sEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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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.- b( B2 }# I; _* `) j+ x
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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.5 ~( g+ \5 c3 R" N7 N
' K, U* O, k, A0 E# i- gPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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7 T M1 j. A% |2 F! v" zRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.+ \3 c" \/ \2 Y) R- m5 a; G
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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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