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Police arrest two men after complaint of smelly truck carrying 1,500 pot plants9 [1 c5 X3 m/ v+ Z& s
! F$ w$ c" v- F# e9 k5 hEDMONTON - Two men are facing charges after Edmonton police pulled over a truck filled with freshly cut marijuana plants.4 R: F8 i7 s+ |- j6 h N
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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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' r1 e/ i" v" U) O3 J; L QOfficers 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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Roughly 400 kilograms of pot was taken from the vehicle and the driver and a passenger were arrested without incident.
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/ j" E2 w' _$ w! i3 i& kCharges 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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