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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.! n" t6 ~% r8 K5 j0 H
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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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+ k5 f( a0 z# i! ^6 Q2 W, OOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.* g/ p0 X3 r8 W1 e$ \: \, \
+ R9 j* O" O( \- L7 GPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.* H+ @& i5 K8 t+ Z( @+ x
5 |" T7 t. s5 l9 |3 MRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.8 w4 I) r; R+ G% R+ K' S
! B- L" X' }; E6 E, R9 DCharges 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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