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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.
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/ G# @9 A; F2 UOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.: X9 \2 u$ [, d. }5 \% y2 S/ {* Z
! O3 i$ O& l$ }Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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( b6 P% o8 O6 e( K( LRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.4 H& A) u4 p, }2 J: d1 z
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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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