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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants1 P" @% I2 O/ E5 O7 U6 \5 m2 ]
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EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.( o1 [/ T( c# F! m
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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.: |2 ^, Q- G2 b1 A
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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.& u/ _/ \+ e4 k- C
3 r1 K& \2 k5 v$ c e% p' a# QPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.1 F6 j* c9 e3 H
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Roughly 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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