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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants
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7 ~: Z8 \0 [# ^9 [+ k( ~EDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.6 c; D+ H2 ^ ~0 p6 a6 i1 J
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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.$ x5 V$ Q4 h7 l9 R* M3 Y7 U
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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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1 v7 M# Z/ C* C3 ?7 qPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van.
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; H7 ?2 F; ^* o7 U0 WRoughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.5 u3 V# q9 `4 y2 i
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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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