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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.% r- Q. P9 ^4 D8 i
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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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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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9 ~. t7 X [2 _/ D9 XPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.4 l O6 O6 E) y$ r
3 Y5 R) n1 t- J3 X5 bRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.2 A, A+ q$ \) [/ y
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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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