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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants% w# A/ x8 Q, o! R& M9 F" n/ \7 F
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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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* V7 Q+ B1 R. i/ G |, |& M+ NPolice 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.1 X: G5 @! m' U' [0 z
# Z* c% S2 Z$ F% t7 M9 UOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.% v F$ m: r* z# p: M. Q# Y0 \$ ?9 c
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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( V# w! W& h* @1 {/ e1 D: xRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.5 D3 W* w* x) c$ a" X$ w
, k D/ P" z6 E1 @# c- T* r1 j+ K) yCharges 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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