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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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0 M5 v3 K8 R4 @1 q" L; f! [" sEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.# v0 \. g" @9 k, W. C
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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.) ]0 ] N9 T6 ]) p0 ^5 L) ]2 l
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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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, \. F6 L1 _# _* DPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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- t9 h. [( @9 H4 p0 A+ ?9 w& nRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.& U! g' _" b& V3 n2 \% |
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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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