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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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) @+ G3 \% F1 fEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.7 u) c( A+ v# B3 _" X" E( T! l! V
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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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( D8 k) Z$ u& e \$ AOfficers 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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0 [" U( x* P$ D: r* v) ]Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.' c/ q6 b: I% J
7 z* c- ?+ A$ @* R, |+ A( u' jCharges 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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