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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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, v* ~) `4 D r- sEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.. l5 K( i. g9 q8 k$ }
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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.
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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.0 L3 w3 W' e/ v {+ B2 R# g6 u
4 h7 F, c: n7 ^( x4 }7 v3 d- P& o0 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.% k' }+ Y S3 K
$ N$ H& k2 Y2 @# Y7 kCharges 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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