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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants7 `+ c. L c! a3 V* E
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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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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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+ M: K9 d. u" o/ xPolice say there were up to 1,500 mature marijuana plants tied in bundles inside the van." K4 w- x( w# W3 D7 m) M( l
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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.4 u6 }( Q( A2 c# C* J7 b
' \) [3 i, O" K$ H/ |8 Y C$ ^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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