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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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9 z2 M: N0 q+ R8 L2 l! D3 q6 yEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.% s; U5 E4 S+ V I0 X) z* W, k
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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.; Q+ z% P5 m+ v
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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.
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8 O' r' P; W1 { O0 C# v+ W- V/ dPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.& L0 [9 R0 N: q$ e% f* {, F
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.+ ]8 q/ e+ y: l$ W! v
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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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