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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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. c9 U. _# U, JOfficers who responded to the call said they also smelled the pot plants about half a block before they pulled over the van.1 A4 A% M2 {) i, ~1 h
" G( p0 m O+ {2 tPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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$ `4 t! Q0 o8 M6 C2 cRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.8 l. R0 T) g& W& h& ~7 U. S
+ g: ?( ^3 h2 M5 OCharges 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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