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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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; T S/ a Y* J6 l9 r% bEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.0 Z; ]* ]% u+ B; l% s6 Q9 B' n
k2 ]1 V% O/ S' k3 G5 g' O# H( tPolice 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.) e+ x- w4 r: w1 d- p
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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.3 _( R1 @8 f. l, `
/ K0 G3 b" u. q6 b$ \1 u- FPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.0 G6 n7 [: s2 C% e
0 N5 { w- j; c4 r! b! T ^8 vRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.; k/ o0 m. P3 g+ v5 H
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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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