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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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! Z; S8 G8 Q2 PEDMONTON - 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.0 _; d, u0 ^6 c8 K0 z. A( ^9 y
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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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) a4 Q& ?6 S5 w% E, w. @Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.$ o8 O3 I" G2 g* i
" }$ B, j: J- \" J5 u: vRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.$ ^$ B4 ~9 r2 ^0 u0 c6 A& }7 h
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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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