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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants \/ w9 n. \ Z) M6 Y/ f) U
- ^! {; s2 \( |) NEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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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.9 x$ a5 r8 ^& b
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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.
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.1 ]6 I, U& E& I5 \8 K# x
! z) p+ b" Q1 S8 D+ A0 a* ?' JRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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t6 M/ |, Y1 @% HCharges 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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