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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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7 ]# }% G9 t/ w/ r2 O sEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.% D3 |# r# u0 |& R! r2 a
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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. N0 i7 w. t Z6 l2 O/ z
% m% ^' F* n" F9 M2 }! x5 Y- @( {Officers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.7 z7 J1 x9 }) G) O$ a1 K3 ] ~
" h [3 X% W; m! S5 n0 z' ZRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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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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