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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.
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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 C- K9 S# E/ a' G& K
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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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, I" l" s2 r2 |, U" m$ vPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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& i. j9 w9 W+ i5 s* T. ORoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.+ {% ]: J+ y4 ~7 y. e. h5 I
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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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