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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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1 ^- ]% h% O- _EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants./ A0 M+ M4 Y% ^) p
# U( |$ i9 _. M. ~% d$ V7 ?! _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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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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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.+ v6 j* I/ E& r% N7 x( V8 j
6 C$ W. l; r( ~: fCharges 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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