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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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7 m# }/ d: e. k9 h% u' q& \EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.: j8 j; c ^ f4 W1 U6 V
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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.$ c( F" j6 p% j- I" @7 ~: D8 d$ j. ^
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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.9 E# Q, f4 E/ K# p' p" s5 _0 s
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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0 B0 K, E3 T9 _, v# t; {' uRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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0 B T* D9 ]6 Q& `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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