Facebook leads police to grass-growing Americans: the norm

Myanmar police arrested an American and two locals after photos on Facebook took them to a huge giant marijuana plantation near Mandalay.

Images of weed fields began circulating on the platform last week – a rare phenomenon online in a country where police images of heroin and methamphetamine seizures are much more common.
Police raided Monday's 20-hectare site in Ngunzun commune to find nearly 350,000 marijuana plants, some 380 meters tall, 380 kilograms of seeds and 270 kilograms of marijuana, the Central Committee said on Wednesday. against drug abuse.
A liberated photo showed American citizen John Fredric Todoroki, 63, arrested alongside Shein Latt, 37, and Ma Shun Myat Noe, 23.
Another man, Alexander Skemp Todoroki, 49, is still "on the run," CCDAC said.
Police confirmed that he is also American.
Prisoners have been charged under the Narcotic Drugs, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, although sentences for conviction are still poorly known.
"We did not know it existed (marijuana planting)," said a local police officer to AFP.
"We only discovered it when we were informed."
The authorities' seizures of heroin, pills and crystal meth are more common in Myanmar, where weak rule of law and conflict-ridden border areas allow for the industrial production of more drugs. hard.
The reaction on Facebook was quick and some praised the arrests.
Others have asked how pot producers have been able to get out there for so long.
"How could the plants have grown so big without you allowing it?" The Facebook user, Kg Zoe Law, commented to the police.
But not everyone was upset by the antics of agronomists.
"Let me know where he's going to be burned so I can put myself in a position," said San Yu Ko Ko.

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