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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.% ^6 I" w) m. a. k8 e4 j
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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.5 R( `9 w& W6 o
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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.1 Z' z3 w( ^. I c9 m1 [
( A" m+ E( w) f8 `% V) KPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.) t7 x- E8 D, V. X- i$ ~
7 T3 u' i( }! Y1 x4 q/ F$ ?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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