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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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% P8 f* f9 U8 U, S# ~2 g) {/ HOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.3 G T+ L8 A# {
( n2 Y! m i4 d" @% }Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.; N, v* a, Z2 i* d2 D6 l" V- p
1 {4 g8 _- N. ?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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