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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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# d+ y' M2 T9 e0 C0 x4 dEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.
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: b1 u" F7 |, l! _8 CPolice 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.6 w& o- E- N- q# V! b1 Z# ~% N
, s: J6 _, X6 [Officers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.# @: I C* B. L! q" M5 ] n
$ \! i& R; P& F. KPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.$ w9 n! E9 E+ h' R. }! L' X
4 b; t2 M. Q: R1 f9 q7 BRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.. R* p) O/ j% m: F9 j- ?5 F
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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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