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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.
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$ n& k* R8 S8 R! ?* p9 o, Y' {$ 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.* G1 Q: l$ R7 S8 k8 D' X, J Y
t* }' n! u6 D( s0 G6 C" K' U tOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.+ C2 |: b- G$ [. {$ T3 |% A
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.0 X) E5 I. q" E
$ _5 a7 z9 ?/ U C0 u6 m8 JRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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1 X: j% R% N+ ]$ y' `, M' T/ m QCharges 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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