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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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6 U" v7 R9 ~. KEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.+ s5 y% E+ E+ v+ r2 E5 D
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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.2 f2 M5 W8 ^3 B6 f( a# Q
9 Z5 q2 k" y6 ^. ~7 h5 i8 QOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van." O/ y9 d/ C# a3 Y6 {
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Police say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van./ r' b' k1 l8 B5 Y9 l! n
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.5 E9 O X! [( d
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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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